23.1418, Books: Incipient Productivity: Zeschel

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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:07:46
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Incipient Productivity: Zeschel

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Title: Incipient Productivity 
Subtitle: A Construction-Based Approach to Linguistic Creativity 
Series Title: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] 49  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/180582?format=G 

Author: Arne Zeschel

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110274844 Pages: 268 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110270013 Pages: 268 Price: Europe EURO 99.95

Abstract:

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.

Focusing on English and German intensification constructions, it proceeds in 
three steps: having first inventoried the lexical means (of a given semantic 
type) that are recruited for signalling intensity in both languages, 
collostructional analysis is then used to identify entrenched intensity 
collocations involving these formatives in three different syntactic 
constructions. Third, multi-rater manual classification methods as well as 
distribution-based automatic classification methods are employed to uncover 
semantic generalisations over the attested types on different levels of 
abstraction.

Collocational expansion is shown to proceed through local analogies within 
sets of semantically similar stored instances of a construction. Synthesising 
insights from research on language acquisition, variation and change, it is 
thus argued that creative extensions of linguistic conventions are intrinsically 
bound up with aspects of memory and repetition. 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
                     German (deu)

Written In: English  (eng)

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