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- Title
Maximizing the explanatory power of constructions in Cognitive Construction Grammar(s).
- Authors
Gonzálvez-García, Francisco
- Abstract
This paper suggests two possible ways in which cognitively-oriented constructionist approaches (Cognitive Construction Grammar, Radical Construction Grammar, and Embodied Construction Grammar) could enhance the explanatory power of constructions. First, the anatomy of a construction should spell out how the morphosyntactic realizations of arguments are specifically mapped onto their inherent semantico-pragmatic properties, while also including detailed information concerning illocutionary force, information structure, register, politeness, etc. Second, it is argued that coercion should be best understood as a continuum allowing for varying degrees of (in-)compatibility between the verb and the construction taken as a whole. Moreover, parameterization and linguistic cueing prove useful to handle the dynamic interaction of the morphosyntactic, semantico-pragmatic, and discourse-functional hallmarks of constructions, including those which invite metonymic inferencing.
- Subjects
CONSTRUCTION grammar; COGNITIVE grammar; VERBS; COURTESY
- Publication
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2020, Vol 34, Issue 1, p110
- ISSN
0774-5141
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/bjl.00039.gon