Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar

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1 Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar Experimental and corpus-based perspectives Florent Perek University of Basel John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia

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3 Table of contents Acknowledgments ix chapter 1 Introduction Overview: Argument realization Usage-based linguistics Structure of the book Part I: Verbs Part II: Constructions Part III: Alternations 11 Part I. Verbs chapter 2 Usage-based perspectives on verb valency The verb in argument realization Projectionist approaches and their limits Constructional approaches The division of labor between verbs and constructions The problem of mapping form to meaning The need for richer lexical knowledge A usage-based account of verb valency Summary 42 chapter 3 Empirical evidence for usage-based valency The hypothesis and its predictions The usage-based valency hypothesis Existing evidence: Verb biases in language comprehension Assessing cognitive accessibility Why these verbs? Design Stimuli Participants and procedure Results 57

4 vi Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar 3.3 Comparison with usage data Data collection Valency distributions Conclusion 74 Part II. Constructions chapter 4 The usage basis of constructional meaning The lexical origin of constructional meaning Constructions and constructional meaning Distributional biases and their significance Experimental evidence Evidence from corpus linguistics: Collostructional analysis Summary: The usage basis of constructional meaning Problems with the lexical basis of constructions The conative construction The semantics of the conative construction The conative construction in use Conclusion 102 chapter 5 The importance of local generalizations Low-level schemas Varying degrees of schematicity The status of low-level schemas Conclusion: The importance of local generalizations Low-level schemas in the conative construction Verb-class-specific constructions Verb-class-specific collexeme analysis Verbs of ingestion Verbs of cutting Verbs of pulling Verbs of hitting Summary and conclusion 139 Part III. Alternations chapter 6 Alternations as units of linguistic knowledge Argument structure alternations Alternations in construction grammar 147

5 Table of contents vii 6.3 Alternations as allostructions The allostructions model The dative allostructions The locative allostructions Experimental evidence for allostructions Alternation-based productivity Conclusion 173 chapter 7 The usage basis of alternation-based productivity Asymmetries in alternations: An experiment Goals of the experiment General design and procedure Stimuli Results Meaning decision task Sentence completion task Contextual factors: A possible confound? Summary Accounting for productivity asymmetries A context-based explanation A usage-based explanation Conclusion and prospects 206 Conclusion chapter 8 Summary and evaluation Usage-based perspectives on argument realization Theoretical and methodological implications 216 References 219 Appendix 235 Constructions index 239 Name index 241 Subject index 245