Incipient Productivity : a Construction-Based Approach to Linguistic Creativity.

Incipient Productivity : a Construction-Based Approach to Linguistic Creativity.

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 pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zeschel, Arne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
Series:Cognitive linguistics research ; 49.
Subjects:
Creativity (Linguistics)
Generative grammar.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Coordinate constructions.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.
REFERENCE > Word Lists.
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general > Coordinate constructions
Kognitive Linguistik
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction; 1.1 The issue; 1.2 Aims and scope; 1.3 Structure of the book; 2. Towards a usage-based model of constructional generalisation; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Incipient productivity: From collocations to constructional schemas; 2.3 Theoretical framework; 2.3.1 Usage-based construction grammar; 2.3.2 Cognitive semantics; 2.3.3 Models of constructional generalisation; 2.4 Previous research; 2.4.1 Insights from research on construction learning; 2.4.2 Insights from research on constructional change; 2.4.3 Insights from research on constructional variation; 2.5 Chapter summary.
  • 3. Testing ground: Intensity collocations3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Intensity and intensification; 3.2.1 Intensification as a linguistic function; 3.2.2 Intensifier variation and change; 3.3 Conceptualising intensification; 3.3.1 Intensification strategies in English and German; 3.3.2 PERCEPTION intensifiers; 3.4 Constructing intensification; 3.4.1 Construction A: Int + N; 3.4.2 Construction B: Int + Adj; 3.4.3 Construction C: Int + with/vor + N; 3.5 Objectives; 3.6 Chapter summary; 4. Lexicalisation patterns: From concepts to words; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Prerequisites.
  • 4.2.1 The corpus-linguistic study of lexicalisation patterns4.2.2 Data; 4.3 Procedure; 4.3.1 Setting up the search space; 4.3.2 Data extraction and coding; 4.4 Results; 4.4.1 Overview; 4.4.2 Construction A; 4.4.3 Construction B; 4.4.4 Construction C; 4.5 Summary and discussion; 5. Fixed expressions: From words to collocations; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Prerequisites; 5.2.1 Formulaicity and creativity; 5.2.2 Corpus data as clues to cognitive entrenchment patterns; 5.3 Procedure; 5.4 Results; 5.4.1 Overview; 5.4.2 Construction A; 5.4.3 Construction B; 5.4.4 Construction C.
  • 5.5 Summary and discussion6. Incipient productivity: From collocations to constructional schemas; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Prerequisites; 6.2.1 Problems of semantic classification; 6.2.2 Approaches to semantic classification; 6.2.3 Approaches to productivity; 6.3 Procedure; 6.3.1 Identifying item-based generalisations; 6.3.2 Identifying pockets of productive use; 6.3.3 Identifying higher-level generalisations; 6.4 Results; 6.4.1 Item-based generalisations; 6.4.2 Incipient productivity; 6.4.3 Higher-order patterns; 6.5 Summary and discussion; 7. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; References; Index.

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