Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar - Boas, Hans C. 1971- (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014)
Romance Perspectives on Construction Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Applying constructional concepts to Romance languages; 1. Introduction; 2. Expanding Construction Grammar from English to other languages; 3. Comparing constructions in Romance languages: Diachronic issues; 4. Comparing constructions in Romance languages: Synchronic issues; 5. Overview of chapters; 6. Conclusions; References; 2. The role of constructional meanings in novel verb-noun compounds in Spanish; 1. Introduction
2. Experiment 1: A comprehension task3. Experiment 2: A production task; 4. Conclusions; Acknowledgement; References; 3. From lexicalization to constructional generalizations: On complex prepositions in French; 1. Introduction; 2. The (lexical) construction sous ('under'); 3. The Mediate Dependency Construction [= MDC]; 4. Additional restrictions: Towards substantive idioms; 5. Conclusions; References; Appendices; 4. A constructional corpus-based approach to 'weak' verbs in French; 1. Definition of 'weak' verbs and previous approaches; 2. Weak verbs in contemporary spoken French
3. Weak verbs: Theoretical challenges and possible solutions4. Weak verbs as constructions; 5. The weak verb construction: A case of grammaticalization?; 6. Some concluding remarks; References; 5. The Narrative Infinitive Construction in French and Latin; 1. Introduction; 2. Root infinitives; 3. The properties of Narrative Infinitives; 4. How to approach Root Infinitives?; 5. Infinitival constructions; Abbreviations; References; 6. Bringing together fragments and constructions: Evidence from complementation in English and Spani; 1. Introduction; 2. Thompson's fragment analysis revisited
3. The subjective-transitive construction in English4. Where do Spanish verbless complement constructions fit in?; 5. Closing remarks and outlook; References; 7. A Romance perspective on gapping constructions; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic data on gapping; 3. The case for a construction-based analysis of gapping; 4. Parallelism constraints on gapping; 5. A construction-based analysis in HPSG; 6. Conclusion; References; 8. Variable type framing in Spanish constructions of directed motion; 1. Introduction; 2. An overview of previous research on manner of motion verbs; 3. The theoretical framework
4. The present study5. Conclusions and theoretical implications; References; Author index; Construction index; Language index; Subject index