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Incipient Productivity A Construction-Based Approach to Linguistic Creativity

:	Arne Zeschel
:	Incipient Productivity A Construction-Based Approach to Linguistic Creativity
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9783110274844
:	Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 159.80
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:	Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
:	English

:	277
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< >How do speakers vary established patterns of language use and adapt them to novel contexts of application? This study presents a usage-based approach to linguistic creativity: combining detailed qualitative with large-scale quantitative analyses of corpus data, it traces the emergence of partial productivity in clusters of conventional collocations. Synthesising insights from research on language acquisition, variation and change, it is argued that creative extensions of linguistic conventions are intrinsically bound up with aspects of memory and repetition.

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< >Arne Zeschel, University of Southern Denmark, Sønderborg, Denmark.

	1. Introduction	11
	1.1 The issue	11
	1.2 Aims and scope	11
	1.3 Structure of the book	13
	2. Towards a usage-based model of constructional generalisation	15
	2.1 Introduction	15
	2.2 Incipient productivity: From collocations to constructional schemas	15
	2.3 Theoretical framework	17
	2.3.1 Usage-based construction grammar	18
	2.3.2 Cognitive semantics	26
	2.3.3 Models of constructional generalisation	31
	2.4 Previous research	35
	2.4.1 Insights from research on construction learning	36
	2.4.2 Insights from research on constructional change	42
	2.4.3 Insights from research on constructional variation	46
	2.5 Chapter summary	51
	3. Testing ground: Intensity collocations	53
	3.1 Introduction	53
	3.2 Intensity and intensification	54
	3.2.1 Intensification as a linguistic function	54
	3.2.2 Intensifier variation and change	57
	3.3 Conceptualising intensification	62
	3.3.1 Intensification strategies in English and German	64
	3.3.2 PERCEPTION intensifiers	69
	3.4 Constructing intensification	72
	3.4.1 Construction A: Int + N	76
	3.4.2 Construction B: Int + Adj	77
	3.4.3 Construction C: Int + with/vor + N	85
	3.5 Objectives	86
	3.6 Chapter summary	87
	4. Lexicalisation patterns: From concepts to words	88
	4.1 Introduction	88
	4.2 Prerequisites	88
	4.2.1 The corpus-linguistic study of lexicalisation patterns	88
	4.2.2 Data	90
	4.3 Procedure	95
	4.3.1 Setting up the search space	95
	4.3.2 Data extraction and coding	97
	4.4 Results	101
	4.4.1 Overview	101
	4.4.2 Construction A	105
	4.4.3 Construction B	112
	4.4.4 Construction C	118
	4.5 Summary and discussion	124
	5. Fixed expressions: From words to collocations	129
	5.1 Introduction	129
	5.2 Prerequisites	130
	5.2.1 Formulaicity and creativity	130
	5.2.2 Corpus data as clues to cognitive entrenchment patterns	132
	5.3 Procedure	136
	5.4 Results	138
	5.4.1 Overview	138
	5.4.2 Construction A	138
	5.4.3 Construction B	147
	5.4.4 Construction C	158
	5.5 Summary and discussion	166
	6. Incipient productivity: From collocations to constructional schemas	169
	6.1 Introduction	169
	6.2 Prerequisites	172
	6.2.1 Problems of semantic classification	172
	6.2.2 Approaches to semantic classification	175
	6.2.3 Approaches to productivity	180
	6.3 Procedure	184
	6.3.1 Identifying item-based generalisations	185
	6.3.2 Identifying pockets of productive use	194
	6.3.3 Identifying higher-level generalisations	198
	6.4 Results	199
	6.4.1 Item-based generalisations	199
	6.4.2 Incipient productivity	213
	6.4.3 Higher-order patterns	227
	6.5 Summary and discussion	237
	7. Conclusion	240
	Appendix	244
	Notes	251
	References	256
	Index	276