ISBN:
9789027260086
Series Statement:
Studies in corpus linguistics volume 100
Content:
"This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics, Construction Grammar and World Englishes through a thorough constructional and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency verb make in British English and New Englishes. It contributes to Construction Grammar theory by adopting a verb-based, rather than construction-based, perspective on argument structure. This allows the probing of the interface between verb-independent generalizations and item-specificity from an underexplored angle that offers new insights into the shape of the constructicon. From a variationist perspective, it seeks to (i) identify features of New Englishes and gauge whether these features exhibit traces of conventionalization, and (ii) assess whether the degree of institutionalization of the New Englishes correlates with linguistic behavior, both from a social and cognitive perspective, thereby contributing to the budding effort to integrate the cognitive and social dimensions into the modeling of linguistic variation in World Englishes"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027208507
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Laporte, Samantha Corpora, constructions, new Englishes Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021 ISBN 9789027208507
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Sprachvariante
;
Verb
;
Konstruktionsgrammatik
;
Korpus
;
Electronic books
