Productivity :: evidence from case and argument structure in Icelandic /

"Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: 'extensibility', 'regularity', and 'generality'. The focus i...

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1. Verfasser: Jóhanna Barðdal, 1969-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam, NL : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:Constructional approaches to language ; v. 8.
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Zusammenfassung:"Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term productivity as used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts: 'extensibility', 'regularity', and 'generality'. The focus in this study of case and argument structure constructions in Icelandic is on the concept of extensibility, while generality and regularity are regarded as derivative of extensibility. Productivity is considered to be a function of type frequency, semantic coherence, and the inverse correlation between these two. This study establishes productivity as an emergent feature of the grammatical system, in an analysis that is grounded in a usage-based constructional approach, where constructions are organized into lexicality-schematicity hierarchies. The view of syntactic productivity advocated here offers a unified account of productivity, in that it captures different degrees of productivity, ranging from highly productive patterns through various intermediate degrees of productivity to low-level analogical extensions."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027218308
9027218307
9789027289674
9027289670
1282104837
9781282104839
9786612104831
661210483X
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