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John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Nov 10, 2011
1. Contributors 2. Preface 3. Introduction: On evidence and the convergence of evidence in lingui... more 1. Contributors 2. Preface 3. Introduction: On evidence and the convergence of evidence in linguistic research (by Schonefeld, Doris) 4. Issues in collecting converging evidence: Is metaphor always a matter of thought? (by Steen, Gerard J.) 5. Part 1. Multi-methodological approaches to constructional and idiomatic meaning 6. 1.1. Cognition verb constructions 7. Perception and conception: The 'see x to be y' construction from a cognitive perspective (by Egan, Thomas) 8. Explaining diverging evidence: The case of clause-initial I think (by Kaltenbock, Gunther) 9. 1.2. Constructional alternatives 10. I am about to die vs. I am going to die: A usage-based comparison between two future-indicating constructions (by Hoche, Silke) 11. Studying syntactic priming in corpora: Implications of different levels of granularity (by Gries, Stefan Th.) 12. Islands of (im)productivity in corpus data and acceptability judgments: Contrasting two potentiality constructions in Dutch (by Backus, Ad) 13. 1.3. Idioms and creative language use 14. Compositional and embodied meanings of somatisms: A corpus-based approach to phraseologisms (by Ziem, Alexander) 15. Word-formation patterns in a cross-linguistic perspective: Testing predictions for novel object naming in Hungarian and German (by Borgwaldt, Susanne R.) 16. Part 2. Multi-methodological approaches to language acquisition 17. The interaction of function and input frequency in L1-acquisition: The case of was...fur 'what kind of...' questions in German (by Steinkrauss, Rasmus) 18. Relative clause acquisition and representation: Evidence from spontaneous speech, sentence repetition, and comprehension (by Brandt, Silke) 19. Converging evidence in the typology of motion events: A corpus-based approach to interlanguage (by Reshoft, Nina) 20. Part 3. Multi-methodological approaches to the study of discourse 21. Differences in the use of emotion metaphors in expert-lay communication: Converging evidence from two complementary studies (by Beger, Anke) 22. Index
related schools of thought in linguistics are increasingly required to be ‘usage-based’. As a res... more related schools of thought in linguistics are increasingly required to be ‘usage-based’. As a result, many researchers from these fields have turned
... of animals whose postures we (can) conceptualize as sufficiently close to the human posture o... more ... of animals whose postures we (can) conceptualize as sufficiently close to the human posture of sitting, with various aspects being extended: E dogs, cats, bird/ G Hund'dog', Vogel'bird', Panda'panda'/R kot'cat'sobaka ... 'fright sits in their bones'(='their knees are still like jelly') (15) R ...
Investigations within Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and related schools of thought... more Investigations within Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and related schools of thought in linguistics are increasingly required to be ‘usage-based’. As a result, many researchers from these fields have turned to samples of language produced in authentic contexts, i.e., corpora, or to experimentation, rather than basing their inquiries on constructed and isolated sentences. While this methodological shift has already resulted in a substantial increase of descriptive and explanatory reliability and validity, we believe that its full potential has not yet been utilized. More specifically, ‘usage-based’ approaches can in principle encompass both corpus-based and experimental perspectives, with each drawing on different kinds of data and yielding different kinds of results. Nevertheless, ‘usage-based’ has mainly been taken to mean ‘corpus-oriented’ and there are few studies in which an individual topic is tackled from more than one methodological perspective, producing what is...
This paper takes a usage-based, Construction Grammar perspective to consider how people interpret... more This paper takes a usage-based, Construction Grammar perspective to consider how people interpret linguistic utterances containing novel converted denominal verbs in the pattern NP + V + NP + PP. As a novel expression, such verbs are not (yet) conventional signs, and their meanings must be constructed from prompts in the usage event. Candidates of these are i) their base nouns, ii) the context, that is, the surrounding words and phrases and the situation, and iii) the syntactic arrangement of the material used. A quantitative analysis of usage data suggests that these constructions are part of a speaker's linguistic knowledge and can, hence, be taken as available for the identification of the general scene the novel verb will name. The data also reveal strong associations between verbs and prepositions.
To date, the description of the excessive sleepiness of “Joe the fat boy” depicted in The Pickwic... more To date, the description of the excessive sleepiness of “Joe the fat boy” depicted in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is widely considered to be the first poetical portrayal of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) [1, 2]. The clinical significance of SDB, however, was not recognised until the second half of the 20th century [2, 3]. In Hypnologia, a compendium on sleep written by Georg Grau in 1688, which has recently been rediscovered, the author presents an astonishingly accurate description of a series of symptoms that today can be regarded as portraying a complete picture of SDB and/or the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome [4]. This compendium will be introduced briefly below.
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Nov 10, 2011
1. Contributors 2. Preface 3. Introduction: On evidence and the convergence of evidence in lingui... more 1. Contributors 2. Preface 3. Introduction: On evidence and the convergence of evidence in linguistic research (by Schonefeld, Doris) 4. Issues in collecting converging evidence: Is metaphor always a matter of thought? (by Steen, Gerard J.) 5. Part 1. Multi-methodological approaches to constructional and idiomatic meaning 6. 1.1. Cognition verb constructions 7. Perception and conception: The 'see x to be y' construction from a cognitive perspective (by Egan, Thomas) 8. Explaining diverging evidence: The case of clause-initial I think (by Kaltenbock, Gunther) 9. 1.2. Constructional alternatives 10. I am about to die vs. I am going to die: A usage-based comparison between two future-indicating constructions (by Hoche, Silke) 11. Studying syntactic priming in corpora: Implications of different levels of granularity (by Gries, Stefan Th.) 12. Islands of (im)productivity in corpus data and acceptability judgments: Contrasting two potentiality constructions in Dutch (by Backus, Ad) 13. 1.3. Idioms and creative language use 14. Compositional and embodied meanings of somatisms: A corpus-based approach to phraseologisms (by Ziem, Alexander) 15. Word-formation patterns in a cross-linguistic perspective: Testing predictions for novel object naming in Hungarian and German (by Borgwaldt, Susanne R.) 16. Part 2. Multi-methodological approaches to language acquisition 17. The interaction of function and input frequency in L1-acquisition: The case of was...fur 'what kind of...' questions in German (by Steinkrauss, Rasmus) 18. Relative clause acquisition and representation: Evidence from spontaneous speech, sentence repetition, and comprehension (by Brandt, Silke) 19. Converging evidence in the typology of motion events: A corpus-based approach to interlanguage (by Reshoft, Nina) 20. Part 3. Multi-methodological approaches to the study of discourse 21. Differences in the use of emotion metaphors in expert-lay communication: Converging evidence from two complementary studies (by Beger, Anke) 22. Index
related schools of thought in linguistics are increasingly required to be ‘usage-based’. As a res... more related schools of thought in linguistics are increasingly required to be ‘usage-based’. As a result, many researchers from these fields have turned
... of animals whose postures we (can) conceptualize as sufficiently close to the human posture o... more ... of animals whose postures we (can) conceptualize as sufficiently close to the human posture of sitting, with various aspects being extended: E dogs, cats, bird/ G Hund'dog', Vogel'bird', Panda'panda'/R kot'cat'sobaka ... 'fright sits in their bones'(='their knees are still like jelly') (15) R ...
Investigations within Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and related schools of thought... more Investigations within Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and related schools of thought in linguistics are increasingly required to be ‘usage-based’. As a result, many researchers from these fields have turned to samples of language produced in authentic contexts, i.e., corpora, or to experimentation, rather than basing their inquiries on constructed and isolated sentences. While this methodological shift has already resulted in a substantial increase of descriptive and explanatory reliability and validity, we believe that its full potential has not yet been utilized. More specifically, ‘usage-based’ approaches can in principle encompass both corpus-based and experimental perspectives, with each drawing on different kinds of data and yielding different kinds of results. Nevertheless, ‘usage-based’ has mainly been taken to mean ‘corpus-oriented’ and there are few studies in which an individual topic is tackled from more than one methodological perspective, producing what is...
This paper takes a usage-based, Construction Grammar perspective to consider how people interpret... more This paper takes a usage-based, Construction Grammar perspective to consider how people interpret linguistic utterances containing novel converted denominal verbs in the pattern NP + V + NP + PP. As a novel expression, such verbs are not (yet) conventional signs, and their meanings must be constructed from prompts in the usage event. Candidates of these are i) their base nouns, ii) the context, that is, the surrounding words and phrases and the situation, and iii) the syntactic arrangement of the material used. A quantitative analysis of usage data suggests that these constructions are part of a speaker's linguistic knowledge and can, hence, be taken as available for the identification of the general scene the novel verb will name. The data also reveal strong associations between verbs and prepositions.
To date, the description of the excessive sleepiness of “Joe the fat boy” depicted in The Pickwic... more To date, the description of the excessive sleepiness of “Joe the fat boy” depicted in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is widely considered to be the first poetical portrayal of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) [1, 2]. The clinical significance of SDB, however, was not recognised until the second half of the 20th century [2, 3]. In Hypnologia, a compendium on sleep written by Georg Grau in 1688, which has recently been rediscovered, the author presents an astonishingly accurate description of a series of symptoms that today can be regarded as portraying a complete picture of SDB and/or the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome [4]. This compendium will be introduced briefly below.
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