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Title: Productivity 
Subtitle: Evidence from Case and Argument Structure in Icelandic 
Series Title: Constructional Approaches to Language 8  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CAL%208 


Author: Jóhanna Barðdal

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027289674 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027289674 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027218308 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027218308 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00


Abstract:

Productivity of argument structure constructions is a new emerging field
within cognitive-functional linguistics. The term <i>productivity</i> as
used in linguistic research contains at least three subconcepts:
'extensibility', 'regularity', and 'generality'. The focus in this study of
case and argument structure constructions in Icelandic is on the concept of
extensibility, while generality and regularity are regarded as derivative
of extensibility. Productivity is considered to be a function of type
frequency, semantic coherence, and the inverse correlation between these
two. This study establishes productivity as an emergent feature of the
grammatical system, in an analysis that is grounded in a usage-based
constructional approach, where constructions are organized into
lexicality-schematicity hierarchies. The view of syntactic productivity
advocated here offers a unified account of productivity, in that it
captures different degrees of productivity, ranging from highly productive
patterns through various intermediate degrees of productivity to low-level
analogical extensions. 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Icelandic (isl)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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