TY - JOUR
T1 - Fatal attraction
T2 - Inheritance and collostruction in the 'ihjel'-construction
AU - Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard
PY - 2012/4/10
Y1 - 2012/4/10
N2 - The purpose of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, it presents an argument for usage-based inheritance models over complete inheritance models in construction grammar. It is argued that, with the principle of inductive language learning as their foundation, usage-based inheritance models allow for redundancies and incongruities in construction networks which enables linguists to take into account details of language use, which would otherwise not be facilitated in complete inheritance models. Secondly, making use of the method of collostructional analysis, the article offers a corpus-based description of the use of the Danish ihjel-construction which accounts for patterns of attraction of construction-verb attraction, patterns of productivity, and various types of subconstructions, including item- and item-class-based ones and metaphorical extensions. The description of the ihjel-construction should also illustrate the superiority of usage-based inheritance models over complete inheritance models in construction grammar-based language description.
AB - The purpose of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, it presents an argument for usage-based inheritance models over complete inheritance models in construction grammar. It is argued that, with the principle of inductive language learning as their foundation, usage-based inheritance models allow for redundancies and incongruities in construction networks which enables linguists to take into account details of language use, which would otherwise not be facilitated in complete inheritance models. Secondly, making use of the method of collostructional analysis, the article offers a corpus-based description of the use of the Danish ihjel-construction which accounts for patterns of attraction of construction-verb attraction, patterns of productivity, and various types of subconstructions, including item- and item-class-based ones and metaphorical extensions. The description of the ihjel-construction should also illustrate the superiority of usage-based inheritance models over complete inheritance models in construction grammar-based language description.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - cognitive linguistics
KW - construction grammar
KW - usage-based grammar
KW - usage-based language models
KW - usage-based linguistics
KW - adverbial particles
KW - constructional inheritance
KW - collostructional analysis
KW - simple collexeme analysis
KW - principle of semantic compatibility
KW - phrasal verbs
KW - idiomaticity
KW - degree of idiomaticity
KW - metqaphor
KW - item-specific constructions
KW - item-class-specific constructions
KW - Korpus2000
KW - Korpus90
KW - DFK Loke
KW - Danish language
KW - Danish grammar
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1904-7843
VL - 3
SP - 1
EP - 30
JO - Scandinavian Studies in Language
JF - Scandinavian Studies in Language
IS - 2
ER -