Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes: A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning

Author:   Samantha Laporte (University of Louvain)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   100
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9789027208507


Pages:   395
Publication Date:   14 July 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes: A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning


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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.

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Author:   Samantha Laporte (University of Louvain)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   100
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9789027208507


ISBN 10:   9027208506
Pages:   395
Publication Date:   14 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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