Grammatical Constructions

In recent years there has been a resurgance of interest in grammatical contructions - units of grammar representing form-meaning correspondences. The movement, in which Construction Grammar as developed by Charles Fillmore and Paul Kay has played a significant role, has arisen in part as a response to the Chomskyan modular approach, which treats grammatical contructions as epiphenomenal, dismantling their component features and attributing these to general principles of grammar. This volume is the first collection to focus on grammatical constructions per se, and is dedicated to Charles Fillmore in recognition of his leadership in the field. The papers all reflect or elaborate on his work, which shows how lexicon, syntax, semantics and pragmatics interact in giving constructions their individual holistic characters as basic units of grammar. Several approaches to constructions are represented here, dealing with topics that range from idiomatized constructions to traditional forms such as conditionals, relative clauses, and benefactive constructions. A unifying thread is the shared conviction that close examination of the nature of grammatical constructions, functions, meanings, and uses in ordinary speech and writing provides a rich foundation upon which to build a theory of cognition, memory, and grammar.

ISBN 0198235399   DEWEY edition DC20 ISBN13 9780198235392 (What's this?)   Pages 362 Publisher Oxford University Press   Volumes 1 Imprint Clarendon Press   Weight (grammes) 614 Format Hardback   Published in Oxford Publication date 11 Jul 1996   Height (mm) 216 Non-book description xvii345   Width (mm) 138 Library of Congress P201.G6777   Spine width (mm) 27 DEWEY 415   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		List of Contributors
		List of Symbols and Abbreviations
1		Inalienability and the Interpretation of Modified Noun Phrases by Claudia Brugman		1
2		Making One's Way Through the Data by Adele E. Goldberg		29
3		Toward a Description of Te-linkage in Japanese by Yoko Hasegawa		55
4		Conversational Scorekeeping and Interpretation of Conditional Sentences by James D. McCawley		77
5		Interaction of Factors in Construal: Japanese Relative Clauses by Yoshiko Matsumoto		103
6		The Situated Interpretation of Possessor-Raising by Mary Catherine O'Connor		125
7		Applicatives and Benefactives: A Cognitive Account by Masayoshi Shibatani		157
8		Two Ways to Travel: Verbs of Motion in English and Spanish by Dan I. Slobin		195
9		Reasoning, Mappings, and Meta-metaphorical Conditionals by Eve Sweetser		221
10		The Windowing of Attention in Language by Leonard Talmy		235
11		The Case for 'Effector': Case Roles, Agents, and Agency Revisited by Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. and David P. Wilkins		289
12		The Interpretation of Deverbal Nominals in Tepehua by James K. Watters		323
		Index		341

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