New Benjamins title: Butler & Arista: Deconstructing Constructions

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Deconstructing Constructions
Edited by Christopher S. Butler and Javier Martín Arista
Swansea University / University of La Rioja
Studies in Language Companion Series 107
2009. xx, 306 pp.

Hardbound 978 90 272 0574 2 / EUR 105.00 / USD 158.00
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This collection of papers brings together contributions from experts 
in functional linguistics and in Construction Grammar approaches, 
with the aim of exploring the concept of construction from different 
angles and trying to arrive at a better understanding of what a 
construction is, and what roles constructions play in the frameworks 
which can be located within a multidimensional functional-cognitive 
space. At the same time, the volume has a historical dimension, for 
instance in plotting the developments which led to recent models. The 
book is organised in three sections: the first deals with particular 
theoretical issues, the second is devoted to the recent Lexical 
Constructional Model, and the third presents a number of analyses of 
specific constructions. The volume thus makes an important 
contribution to the ongoing debate about the relationship between 
functionalist and constructionist models.


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Table of contents

Contributors  viixiv
Introduction
Christopher S. Butler and Javier Martín Arista xvxx
Part I. Theoretical issues
Innovative coinage: Its place in the grammar
Daniel García Velasco 324
The construction of macro-events: A typological perspective
Johan Pedersen 2562
Constructions, co-composition and merge
Beatriz Martínez Fernández 6384
A typology of morphological constructions
Javier Martín Arista 85114
Part II. The Lexical Constructional Model: An overview  115198
The Lexical Constructional Model: Genesis, strengths and challenges
Christopher S. Butler 117152
Levels of description and explanation in meaning construction
Ricardo Mairal Usón and Francisco Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez 153198
Part III. Studies of specific constructions  199294
Measuring out reflexivity in secondary predication in English and 
Spanish: Evidence from cognition verbs
Francisco Gonzálvez-García 201246
The inchoative construction: Semantic representation and unification 
constraints
Francisco Cortés Rodríguez 247270
Semantic and pragmatic constraints on the English get-passive
Pilar Guerrero Medina 271294
Name index  295297
Language index  299
Subject index  301306

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