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Format: 1 online resource (286 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 90-272-4930-X

Series Statement: Constructional Approaches to Language Series ; v.37

Content: The volume showcases the vibrant research activity within part of the construction grammar community dealing with Nordic languages, contributing to the knowledge about the structure, use and learning of these languages, as well as to the field of construction grammar as a whole.

Note: Intro -- Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1. The Nordic languages -- 1.1 History -- 1.2 Syntax -- 1.3 Morphology -- 1.4 Phonology -- 2. Focus areas in Nordic construction grammar -- 2.1 Interactional construction grammar -- 2.2 Diachronic construction grammar -- 2.3 Constructicography -- 2.4 Diasystematic Construction Grammar -- 3. This volume -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 Life at the intersection -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The source constructions: mannen and den mannen -- 2.1 mannen: a noun phrase with a suffixed definite article -- 2.2 den mannen: noun phrases with a prenominal determiner -- 3. Theoretical background -- 4. The functions of han mannen -- 4.1 Psychological distance or background deixis? -- 4.2 Explaining psychological distance -- 5. Methodology -- 5.1 Data and data selection -- 5.2 Statistical methods -- 5.3 The tested predictor variables -- Int -- N -- Premod -- Poss -- Rc -- Speaker -- 6. Sequential relations: results -- 6.1 Comparing mannen and den mannen -- 6.2 Comparing mannen and han mannen -- 6.3 Comparing den mannen and han mannen -- 6.4 Summary -- 7. The lexemes that occupy the noun slot -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 3 One man's [ɕœtː] is another man's [kʰøð̞] -- 1. Introduction1 -- 2. Previous views on Interscandinavian decoding -- 3. Implicit learning of correspondence rules -- 4. Problems in Danish-Swedish intercommunication -- 5. The theoretical approach -- 6. Analysis: Acquisition of Danish-Swedish sound correspondence constructions -- 6.1 Acquisition of a specific sound correspondence pattern -- 6.2 Acquisition of an abstract sound correspondence pattern -- 7. Discussion -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 The Devil is in the schema -- 1. Introduction. , 2. Swearing in Swedish: Cultural history, forms, and functions -- 3. A constructional approach to hell: The devil is in the schema -- 3.1 Swearwords and swearing constructions -- 3.2 Taboo-avoiding strategies, radical coercion, and extravagance -- 3.3 Phonological schemas and submorphemic coercion -- 4. Corpus evidence for productive phonological schemas -- 4.1 Preliminary considerations -- 4.2 Schema I: [hel-x] -- 4.3 Schema II: [jä-x-a(r)] -- 4.4 Schema III: [fa-x] -- 4.5 Differences in productivity -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 5 Meaning integration in pseudocoordination -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 PC characteristics -- 2.2 PC subschemas and the paradigm of V1s -- 2.3 Most V1s are fully lexical -- 3. PC is VP coordination -- 3.1 The constructional analysis of coordination -- 3.2 Explaining C1 and C2: The coordinands in PC are VPs -- 3.3 One step up: The VP coordination construction -- 4. Meaning integration in PC -- 4.1 Comparison with serial verb constructions -- 4.2 Facilitation is at the core of PC -- 4.3 Explaining C3 concerning coordinators and focus adverbs -- 4.4 Explaining C4: Fixed coordinand order -- 4.5 Explaining C5 concerning negation and other sentence adverbials -- 4.6 Explaining C6: Identical verb inflections -- 4.7 Explaining C7: Backgrounding and filler-gap asymmetry -- 4.8 Desemanticization and grammaticalization rest on backgrounding -- 5. Concluding discussion -- References -- Chapter 6 Construction grammar in domain-specific discourse -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Constructions and domain-specific language -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 existential constructions -- 3.2 Corpus -- 3.3 Data analysis -- 4. Text-linguistic and lexicological analysis -- 4.1 Swedish -- 4.1.1 Dominating speech act -- 4.1.2 Main topic -- 4.1.3 Information structure. , 4.1.4 Stylistic and formulative prototypical features -- 4.2 Norwegian -- 4.2.1 Dominating speech act -- 4.2.2 Main topic -- 4.2.3 Information structure -- 4.2.4 Stylistic and formulative prototypical features -- 4.3 Dutch -- 4.3.1 Dominating speech act -- 4.3.2 Main topic -- 4.3.3 Information structure -- 4.3.4 Stylistic and formulative prototypical features -- 4.4 Overview -- 5. Constructional analysis -- 5.1 Swedish -- 5.1.1 Frequency -- 5.1.2 Formal features -- 5.1.3 Argument structure -- 5.2 Norwegian -- 5.2.1 Frequency -- 5.2.2 Formal features -- 5.2.3 Argument structure -- 5.3 Dutch -- 5.3.1 Frequency -- 5.3.2 Formal features -- 5.3.3 Argument structure -- 5.4 Comparison -- 6. Summary -- References -- Chapter 7 The entrenchment of semi-schematic time constructions by German foreign language learners of Swedish -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Usage-based and diasystematic construction grammar -- 2.1 Diasystematic construction grammar and emerging multilingualism -- 2.2 Entrenchment -- 3. Lexical and phrasal decision -- 4. Experimental study of entrenchment -- 4.1 Material and items -- 4.2 Participants -- 4.2.1 Control group (L1) -- 4.2.2 Study group (L2) -- 4.3 Design and procedure -- 4.4 Results -- 4.4.1 Control group (L1) results -- 4.4.2 Experiment group (L2) results -- 5. Comparison with corpus data -- 6. Final discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Sources -- Appendices -- Background questions -- Additional tables -- Chapter 8 Danish verb prefixes and the schematizing transitive prefix construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 The German be-construction -- 2.2 The English be-construction -- 3. The Danish STP construction -- 3.1 Meaning variants and usage patterns -- 3.1.1 (A) Transitive relation with manner-specification -- 3.1.2 (B) Transitive relation with transfer/means-specification. , 3.1.3 (C) Transitive relation with result-specification -- 3.1.4 Meaning variants, usage patterns and productivity -- 4. Corpus analysis -- 5. Summarizing the semantics of the STP construction -- 6. Innovative usage -- 6.1 Transitive relation with manner-specification -- 6.2 Transitive relation with transfer/means-specification -- 6.3 Transitive relation with result-specification -- 7. Concluding remarks -- References -- Appendix 1. The STP be-construction -- Appendix 2. The STP for-construction -- Appendix 3. Transitive relation with manner-specification -- Appendix 4. Transitive relation with transfer/means-specification -- Appendix 5. Transitive relation with result-specification -- Chapter 9 Minimizers as negative reinforcers in Norwegian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: Negative constructions and negative reinforcement -- 2.1 The grammaticalization of minimizers as negative reinforcers -- 2.2 Minimizing expressions in Norwegian -- 3. Data and method -- 3.1 Data selection -- 3.2 Collexeme analysis -- 4. Results and analysis -- 4.1 Minimizers, lexical domains and context sensitivity -- 4.2 Morpho-syntactic properties -- 4.2.1 Definiteness -- 4.2.2 Number -- 4.2.3 Syntactic functions -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Minimizers and extravagant speech behavior -- 5.2 Coercion with a low degree of lexical persistence -- 5.3 Propagation and grammaticalization of minimizers -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Corpora -- Index.

Additional Edition: Print version: Coussé, Evie Constructional Approaches to Nordic Languages Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company,c2023 ISBN 9789027214317

Language: English