36.2828, Books: Unrealized Arguments and the Grammar of Context: Chaves, Kay and Michaelis (2025)

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Subject: 36.2828, Books: Unrealized Arguments and the Grammar of Context: Chaves, Kay and Michaelis (2025)

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Date: 18-Sep-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Unrealized Arguments and the Grammar of Context: Chaves, Kay and Michaelis (2025)


Title: Unrealized Arguments and the Grammar of Context
Series Title: Elements in Construction Grammar
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/unrealized-arguments-and-grammar-context?format=PB&isbn=9781009663830

Author(s): Rui P. Chaves; Paul Kay; Laura A. Michaelis

Hardback ISBN:  9781009663823 Pages:  74 Price: U.K. £ 49.99
Hardback ISBN:  9781009663823 Pages:  74 Price: Europe EURO 58.34
Hardback ISBN:  9781009663823 Pages:  74 Price: U.S. $ 64.99

Abstract:

In null instantiation (NI) an optionally unexpressed argument receives
either anaphoric or existential interpretation. One cannot accurately
predict a predicator's NI potential based either on semantic factors
(e.g., Aktionsart class of the verb) or pragmatic factors (e.g.,
relative discourse prominence of arguments), but NI potential, while
highly constrained, is not simply lexical idiosyncrasy. It is instead
the product of both lexical and constructional licensing. In the
latter case, a construction can endow a verb with NI potential that it
would not otherwise have. Using representational tools of sign based
construction grammar, this Element offers a lexical treatment of
English null instantiation that covers both distinct patterns of
construal of null-instantiated arguments and the difference between
listeme-based and contextually licensed, thus construction-based, null
complementation.

Written In: English (eng)



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