2009, ISBN: 9789027204318

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. Hardcover. New. This collection of original articles focuses on the function, role, and structure of linguistic and extralinguistic context(s) i… Mehr…

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. Hardcover. New. This collection of original articles focuses on the function, role, and structure of linguistic and extralinguistic context(s) in relation to the notion of constructions and in construction grammar. It thus takes up and brings together two equally complex concepts of linguistics, which both encompass structural as well as pragmatic and discourse-oriented aspects. Although both notions contexts as well as constructions have been under intense discussion in linguistics during the last decades with a wide span of research interests, integrative studies of these aspects have been largely missing. The eight papers presented in this volume explore the possibilities and risks of integrating context(s) into particular constructions and construction grammar in general. Topics range from particular language and construction-specific problems such as the `polysemy` of modal verbs in relation to context-sensitive constructions, to general technical analyses and proposals, including proposals for formalizing contextual features in constructional representations.The volume will be of interest to scholars and advanced undergraduates interested in linguistic theory in general and in constructional, pragmatic and discourse-analytic approaches in particular. Printed Pages: xii, 226 pp. Printed Pages: 0. Contexts and Constructions (Constructional Approaches to Language 9) BERGS, Alexander and Gabriele DIEWALD (eds.) Pragmatics||Syntax||Theoretical linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009, 6<

2005, ISBN: 9789027204318

Recent studies of conditionals in English have cited putative evidence from German word order in support of the functional distinction between content and speech-act conditionals (Dancygi… Mehr…

Recent studies of conditionals in English have cited putative evidence from German word order in support of the functional distinction between content and speech-act conditionals (Dancygier & Sweetser, 2005; Declerck & Reed, 2001) while counterexamples have largely been ignored. The present study takes a closer look at the syntactic marker in question, namely integrative and non-integrative word order in wenn ‘if’-initial conditionals. The findings raise doubts about the hypothesized correlation of the construction’s syntactic form and the cognitive domain in which it is interpreted. In this paper I explore how clausal integration interacts with mental space construction in conditional speech acts and show that integration does not mark content or predictive conditionality. Rather, clausal integration signals that the if -clause ( P ) is the sole space where the apodosis ( Q ) holds and that in all other spaces, ~ Q would take Q ’s place. From the perspective of Construction Grammar (CG), the form-function mapping of syntactic integration and contrastivity observed in the German data provides a window on functional distinctions which may exist but are not formally marked in other languages. Language Arts & Disciplines Language Arts & Disciplines eBook, John Benjamins Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9027204314

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Gebundene Ausgabe, [EAN: 9789027204318], John Benjamins Publishing Co, John Benjamins Publishing Co, Book, [PU: John Benjamins Publishing Co], John Benjamins Publishing Co, 54484011, Linguistik, 54476011, Wörter & Sprache, 54127011, Lernen & Nachschlagen, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher<

2009, ISBN: 9789027204318

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