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(Kyung Hee University, Seoul), (University of Colorado Boulder)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 366 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 251x176x24 mm, kaal: 750 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2020
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1108470335
  • ISBN-13: 9781108470339
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 366 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 251x176x24 mm, kaal: 750 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2020
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1108470335
  • ISBN-13: 9781108470339
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Construction grammar (CxG) is a framework for syntactic analysis that takes constructions - pairings of form and meaning that range from the highly idiomatic to the very general - to be the building blocks of sentence meaning. Offering the first comprehensive introduction to CxG to focus on both English words and the constructions that combine them, this textbook shows students not only what the analyses of particular structures are, but also how and why those analyses are constructed, with each chapter taking the student step-by-step through the reasoning processes that yield the best description of a data set. It offers a wealth of illustrative examples and exercises, largely based on real language data, making it ideal for both self-study and classroom use. Written in an accessible and engaging way, this textbook will open up this increasingly popular linguistic framework to anyone interested in the grammatical patterns of English.

Providing a systematic guide to construction grammar, this textbook is unique in focusing on foundational constructions of English, from idioms to rules. It features exercises based on attested language data, making it ideally suited for classroom use. Written accessibly, it helps students develop insights about words and grammatical patterns.

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'Adopting the traditional perspective that constructions are at the heart of the grammar of English and other languages, Kim and Michaelis provide a detailed introduction to English syntax within the Sign-Based Construction Grammar framework (SBCG). They consider all the main syntactic phenomena of English, and in each area consider both what is assumed and why it is assumed. The book is a valuable addition to textbooks on English syntax. Anyone who learns about syntax from it will end up with considerable knowledge both of English syntax and of the SBCG framework.' Bob Borsley, Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex 'This is a thorough, textbook introduction to classic topics in English syntax, from raising and control to clefting. It needs to be praised for at least two reasons: it satisfies those who are keen on formalism but do not subscribe to the generative model and it brings to the fore the importance of constructions in syntactic analysis.' Cristiano Broccias, Professor of English Linguistics, University of Genoa

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With exercises based on real language data, this volume gives a comprehensive introduction to construction grammar, focusing on English.
Preface xi
1 What Is a Theory of English Syntax About?
1(18)
1.1 Linguistic and Syntactic Competence
1(4)
1.2 Generative Grammars
5(1)
1.3 How We Discover Descriptive Rules
5(4)
1.4 Two Different Views of Generative Grammar
9(5)
1.4.1 Deductive Reasoning and the Nativist View
10(2)
1.4.2 Inductive Reasoning and the Constraint-Based View
12(2)
1.5 Evidence That Grammar Is Construction-Based
14(1)
1.6 Goals of This Book
15(4)
2 Lexical and Phrasal Signs
19(34)
2.1 Linguistic Signs and Constructions as Form-Meaning Pairs
19(1)
2.2 From Lexical Signs to Phrasal Signs as a Continuum
20(4)
2.3 Lexical Signs
24(7)
2.3.1 Classifying Lexical Signs
24(5)
2.3.2 Grammar with Lexical Categories Alone
29(2)
2.4 Phrasal Constructions and Constituency Tests
31(3)
2.5 Forming Phrasal Constructions: Phrase Structure Rules
34(6)
2.5.1 NP: Noun Phrase
34(1)
2.5.2 VP: Verb Phrase
35(2)
2.5.3 AP: Adjective Phrase
37(1)
2.5.4 AdvP: Adverb Phrase
38(1)
2.5.5 PP: Preposition Phrase
39(1)
2.5.6 CP and ConjP: Complementizer and Conjunction Phrases
40(1)
2.6 Grammar with Phrasal Constructions
40(5)
2.7 Multi-word Expressions: Between Lexical and Phrasal Constructions
45(4)
2.7.1 Fixed Expressions
45(1)
2.7.2 Semi-fixed Expressions
46(1)
2.7.3 Syntactically Flexible Multi-word Expressions
47(2)
2.8 Conclusion
49(4)
3 Syntactic Forms, Grammatical Functions, and Semantic Roles
53(17)
3.1 Introduction
53(1)
3.2 Grammatical Functions
54(6)
3.2.1 Subjects
54(2)
3.2.2 Direct Objects and Indirect Objects
56(2)
3.2.3 Predicative Complements
58(1)
3.2.4 Oblique Complements
59(1)
3.2.5 Modifiers
59(1)
3.3 Bringing Form and Function Together
60(1)
3.4 Form-Function Mismatches
61(2)
3.5 Semantic Roles
63(3)
3.6 Conclusion
66(4)
4 Head, Complements, Modifiers, and Argument Structures
70(29)
4.1 Building a Phrase from a Head
70(3)
4.1.1 Internal vs. External Syntax
70(1)
4.1.2 The Notion of Head, Complements, and Modifiers
71(2)
4.2 Differences between Complements and Modifiers
73(3)
4.3 PS Rules, X'-rules, and Features
76(8)
4.3.1 Problems of PS Rules
76(2)
4.3.2 Intermediate Phrases and Specifiers
78(6)
4.3.3 Intermediate Phrases for Non-NPs
84(1)
4.4 Lexicon and Feature Structures
84(5)
4.4.1 Feature Structures and Basic Operations
85(2)
4.4.2 Feature Structures for Linguistic Entities
87(2)
4.5 Arguments and Argument-Structure Constructions
89(7)
4.5.1 Basic Properties of Argument Structure
89(1)
4.5.2 Types of Argument-Structure Constructions
90(4)
4.5.3 Argument Structures as Constructions: Form and Meaning Relations
94(2)
4.6 Conclusion
96(3)
5 Combinatorial Construction Rules and Principles
99(35)
5.1 From Lexemes to Words
99(2)
5.2 Head Features and Head Feature Principle
101(4)
5.2.1 Parts of Speech Value as a Head Feature
101(1)
5.2.2 Verb Form as a Head Feature
101(3)
5.2.3 Mapping between Argument-Structure and Valence Features
104(1)
5.3 Combinatory Construction Rules
105(6)
5.4 Nonphrasal, Lexical Constructions
111(2)
5.5 Feature Specifications on the Syntactic Complement
113(5)
5.5.1 Complements of Verbs
113(3)
5.5.2 Complements of Adjectives
116(1)
5.5.3 Complements of Common Nouns
117(1)
5.6 Feature Specifications on the Subject
118(1)
5.7 Clausal Complement and Subject
119(12)
5.7.1 Verbs Selecting a Clausal Complement
119(7)
5.7.2 Verbs Selecting a Clausal Subject
126(2)
5.7.3 Adjectives Selecting a Clausal Complement
128(1)
5.7.4 Nouns Selecting a Clausal Complement
129(2)
5.7.5 Prepositions Selecting a Clausal Complement
131(1)
5.8 Conclusion
131(3)
6 Noun Phrases and Agreement
134(30)
6.1 Classification of Nouns
134(1)
6.2 Syntactic Structures
135(6)
6.2.1 Common Nouns
135(4)
6.2.2 Pronouns
139(1)
6.2.3 Proper Nouns
140(1)
6.3 Agreement Types and Morphosyntactic Features
141(4)
6.3.1 Noun-Determiner Agreement
141(2)
6.3.2 Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
143(1)
6.3.3 Subject-Verb Agreement
143(2)
6.4 Semantic Agreement Features
145(5)
6.5 Partitive NPs and Agreement
150(8)
6.5.1 Basic Properties
150(1)
6.5.2 Two Types of Partitive NPs
151(6)
6.5.3 Measure Noun Phrases
157(1)
6.6 Modifying an NP
158(3)
6.6.1 Adjectives as Prenominal Modifiers
158(2)
6.6.2 Postnominal Modifiers
160(1)
6.7 Conclusion
161(3)
7 Raising and Control Constructions
164(22)
7.1 Raising and Control Predicates
164(1)
7.2 Differences between Raising and Control Verbs
165(4)
7.2.1 Subject Raising and Control
165(3)
7.2.2 Object Raising and Control
168(1)
7.3 A Simple Transformational Approach
169(3)
7.4 A Nontransformational, Construction-Based Approach
172(9)
7.4.1 Identical Syntactic Structures
172(2)
7.4.2 Differences among the Feature Specifications in the Valence Information
174(4)
7.4.3 A Mismatch between Meaning and Structure
178(3)
7.5 Explaining the Differences
181(2)
7.5.1 Expletive Subject and Object
181(1)
7.5.2 Meaning Preservation
181(1)
7.5.3 Subject vs. Object Control Verbs
182(1)
7.6 Conclusion
183(3)
8 Auxiliary and Related Constructions
186(30)
8.1 Basic Issues
186(2)
8.2 Transformational Analyses
188(2)
8.3 A Construction-Based Analysis
190(9)
8.3.1 Shared Properties of Raising Verbs
190(1)
8.3.2 Modals
191(2)
8.3.3 Be and Have
193(3)
8.3.4 Periphrastic Do
196(2)
8.3.5 Infinitival Clause Marker To
198(1)
8.4 Capturing NICE Properties
199(13)
8.4.1 Auxiliaries with Negation
199(5)
8.4.2 Auxiliaries with Inversion
204(4)
8.4.3 Contracted Auxiliaries
208(1)
8.4.4 Auxiliaries with Ellipsis
209(3)
8.5 Conclusion
212(4)
9 Passive Constructions
216(21)
9.1 Introduction
216(1)
9.2 The Relationship between Active and Passive
217(2)
9.3 Approaches to Passive
219(7)
9.3.1 From Structural Description to Structural Change
219(1)
9.3.2 A Transformational Approach
220(1)
9.3.3 A Construction-Based Approach
221(5)
9.4 Prepositional Passives
226(3)
9.5 The Get-Passive
229(4)
9.6 Conclusion
233(4)
10 Interrogative and Wh-question Constructions
237(29)
10.1 Clausal Types and Interrogatives
237(2)
10.2 Movement vs. Feature Percolation
239(3)
10.3 Feature Percolation with No Abstract Elements
242(11)
10.3.1 Basic Systems
242(3)
10.3.2 Nonsubject Wh-questions
245(5)
10.3.3 Subject Wh-questions
250(3)
10.4 Indirect Questions
253(10)
10.4.1 Basic Structures
253(4)
10.4.2 Non-wh Indirect Questions
257(1)
10.4.3 Infinitival Indirect Questions
258(3)
10.4.4 Adjunct Wh-questions
261(2)
10.5 Conclusion
263(3)
11 Relative Clause Constructions
266(24)
11.1 Introduction
266(1)
11.2 Nonsubject Wh-Relative Clauses
267(5)
11.3 Subject Relative Clauses
272(2)
11.4 That-Relative Clauses
274(2)
11.5 Infinitival and Bare Relative Clauses
276(3)
11.6 Restrictive vs. Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses
279(5)
11.7 Island Constraints on the Filler-Gap Dependencies
284(3)
11.8 Conclusion
287(3)
12 Tough, Extraposition, and Cleft Constructions
290(27)
12.1 Introduction
290(1)
12.2 `Tough' Constructions and Topichood
291(6)
12.2.1 Basic Properties
291(1)
12.2.2 Transformational Analyses
292(1)
12.2.3 A Construction-Based Analysis
293(4)
12.3 Extraposition
297(6)
12.3.1 Basic Properties
297(1)
12.3.2 Transformational Analysis
298(1)
12.3.3 A Construction-Based Analysis
299(4)
12.4 Cleft Constructions
303(11)
12.4.1 Basic Properties
303(1)
12.4.2 Distributional Properties of the Three Clefts
304(1)
12.4.3 Syntactic Structures of the Three Types of Cleft: Movement Analyses
305(2)
12.4.4 A Construction-Based Analysis
307(7)
12.5 Conclusion
314(3)
Afterword 317(3)
Appendix 320(17)
Bibliography 337(15)
Index 352
Jong-Bok Kim is Professor of English Linguistics at Kyung Hee University, Seoul. Laura A. Michaelis is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder.