基本説明
This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive for each of these constructions. It also underlines the usefulness of providing corpus studies with a solid theoretical foundation by showing how corpus linguistics can be fruitfully combined with cognitive linguistics, which is used both as a starting point for the analysis (top-down approach) and as a framework within which to interpret the corpus results (bottom-up approach).
Full Description
English causative constructions with cause, get, have and make are often mistakenly presented as (quasi-)synonymous and more or less interchangeable. This book demonstrates the value of corpus linguistics in identifying the syntactic, semantic, lexical and stylistic features that are distinctive for each of these constructions. It also underlines the usefulness of providing corpus studies with a solid theoretical foundation by showing how corpus linguistics can be fruitfully combined with cognitive linguistics, which is used both as a starting point for the analysis (top-down approach) and as a framework within which to interpret the corpus results (bottom-up approach). From a methodological point of view, the study illustrates the complementarity of corpus and elicitation data, and offers tools and methods that could be used to investigate other syntactic structures. Finally, the book also has a pedagogical dimension in that it examines how the research findings can be applied to foreign language teaching.
Contents
1. List of tables; 2. List of figures; 3. Acknowledgements; 4. 1. Introduction; 5. 2. Corpus linguistics and theory; 6. 3. English causative constructions: Collecting the data; 7. 4. Causative constructions in action: The realisation of the action chain; 8. 5. The syntax and semantics of causative constructions: The Principle of No Synonymy; 9. 6. Defining the causative prototype; 10. 7. Lexical co-occurrence in causative constructions; 11. 8. Collexemes in the effect slot; 12. 9. The influence of register on causative constructions; 13. 10. Causative constructions and foreign language teaching; 14. 11. Conclusion; 15. References; 16. Appendix 1. Elicitation test; 17. Appendix 2. Distinctive syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions; 18. Appendix 3. Most frequent syntactic and semantic features of causative constructions; 19. Author index; 20. Subject index
