UID:
almafu_9959242576902883
Format:
1 online resource (280 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-59748-8
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9786613627315
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3-11-027484-1
Series Statement:
Cognitive linguistics research, 49
Content:
How do speakers vary established patterns of language use and adapt them to novel contexts of application? This study presents a usage-based approach to linguistic creativity: combining detailed qualitative with large-scale quantitative analyses of corpus data, it traces the emergence of partial productivity in clusters of conventional collocations. Focusing on English and German intensification constructions, it proceeds in three steps: having first inventoried the lexical means (of a given semantic type) that are recruited for signalling intensity in both languages, collostructional analysis is then used to identify entrenched intensity collocations involving these formatives in three different syntactic constructions. Third, multi-rater manual classification methods as well as distribution-based automatic classification methods are employed to uncover semantic generalisations over the attested types on different levels of abstraction. Collocational expansion is shown to proceed through local analogies within sets of semantically similar stored instances of a construction. Synthesising insights from research on language acquisition, variation and change, it is thus argued that creative extensions of linguistic conventions are intrinsically bound up with aspects of memory and repetition.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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Chapter 1. Introduction --
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Chapter 2. Towards a usage-based model of constructional generalisation --
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Chapter 3. Testing ground: Intensity collocations --
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Chapter 4. Lexicalisation patterns: From concepts to words --
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Chapter 5. Fixed expressions: From words to collocations --
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Chapter 6. Incipient productivity: From collocations to constructional schemas --
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Chapter 7. Conclusion --
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Appendix --
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Notes --
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References --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-027001-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783110274844
