: Graeme Trousdale, Nikolas Gisborne
: Constructional Approaches to English Grammar
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110199178
: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 177.10
:
: Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
: English
: 316
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: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF

The book presents a series of new perspectives on patterns and developments in English grammar from a constructional perspective. The articles are authored by new and emerging experts in English grammar, who provide a critical assessment of the role of constructions in key areas of grammatical theory, from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives.



Graeme Trousdaleand Nikolas Gisborne, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
Frontmatter1
Contents5
Constructional approaches to language-particular description7
Gerunds, categories and constructions13
Approaches to the English gerund17
Constructions in grammaticalization and lexicalization: Evidence from the history of a composite predicate construction in English39
Corpus approaches to constructions77
English relative clauses and Construction Grammar: A topic which preposition placement can shed light on?83
Shall and shan’t in contemporary English – a case of functional condensation119
Constraints on the attributive use of “predicative-only”adjectives: A reassessment151
Constructions and lexical approaches189
Antitransitivity and constructionality193
Dependencies are constructions: A case study in predicative complementation225
Word Grammar and Construction Grammar263
Backmatter309