32.2627, Books: Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes: Laporte

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Subject: 32.2627, Books: Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes: Laporte

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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 22:35:26
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes: Laporte

 


Title: Corpora, Constructions, New Englishes 
Subtitle: A constructional and variationist approach to verb patterning 
Series Title: Studies in Corpus Linguistics 100  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.100 


Author: Samantha Laporte

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260086 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260086 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260086 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208507 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208507 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027208507 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

This book takes an integrated approach to the fields of Corpus Linguistics,
Construction Grammar, and World Englishes through a thorough constructional
and corpus-based examination of the patterning of the versatile high-frequency
verb "make" in British English and New Englishes. It contributes to
Construction Grammar theory by adopting a verb-based, rather than
construction-based, perspective on argument structure. This allows the probing
of the interface between verb-independent generalizations and item-specificity
from an underexplored angle that offers new insights into the shape of the
constructicon. From a variationist perspective, it seeks to (i) identify
features of New Englishes and gauge whether these features exhibit traces of
conventionalization, and (ii) assess whether the degree of
institutionalization of the New Englishes correlates with linguistic behavior,
both from a social and cognitive perspective, thereby contributing to the
budding effort to integrate the cognitive and social dimensions into the
modeling of linguistic variation in World Englishes.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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