{"title":"Pleonastic complex words as functional amalgams","authors":"Nikos Koutsoukos, Laura A. Michaelis","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00046.KOU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00046.KOU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Syntactic amalgams are innovative phrasal constructions that combine otherwise incompatible subparts of other\u0000 constructions (Lambrecht 1988; Brenier and Michaelis\u0000 2005). We describe pleonastic formations like flavorize in English and ψηλαφ-ίζ(ω) [psilafízo]\u0000 ‘palpate’ in Modern Greek as functional amalgams at the word level. We examine these formations through the lens of (function-oriented)\u0000 Sign-Based Construction Grammar (Sag 2012), arguing that once we see\u0000 derivational morphemes as signs, and sign combination as construction-driven rather than head-driven, we can describe such words as coercive\u0000 combinations that serve a variety of semiotic functions.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"1105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122922848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strange sounds, familiar words","authors":"A. Hagel","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00040.HAG","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00040.HAG","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 When communicating across closely related languages or varieties (e.g. in interdialectal communication or in\u0000 regions such as Mainland Scandinavia), speakers have to learn how to decode words that show partial phonological differences from\u0000 the equivalents in their L1. Although contact situations like these are rather common, interlingual decoding has scarcely been\u0000 addressed in the CxG literature. As a contribution to this field of research, the paper discusses how (a particular stage in)\u0000 emerging receptive multilingualism can be modelled from a CxG perspective. Specifically, it deals with the idea that repeated\u0000 interlingual decoding generates partially schematic cross-linguistic constructions mirroring the speaker’s knowledge about sound\u0000 correspondences, as suggested by Diasystematic Construction Grammar (Höder 2019).","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128580607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model might enrich Diachronic Construction Grammar","authors":"H. Schmid","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00055.SCH","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00055.SCH","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Explanations of language change in terms of Diachronic Construction Grammar generalize over gradual adaptations of\u0000 the linguistic behaviour of individual speakers and communities. Presenting a diachronic case study of the pattern\u0000 (the) (Adj) thing (clauserel) is (is)\u0000 (that), I argue that the time course of formal, semantic and pragmatic changes, of changes in frequency and\u0000 of changes regarding dispersion over speakers and choices of lexical items offer a glimpse of the gradual individual and communal\u0000 adaptations underlying processes such as constructionalization and constructional change. I interpret data extracted from various\u0000 corpora from the perspectives of Diachronic Construction Grammar and the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model (Schmid 2020) and discuss how the latter perspective might enrich the former.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121677435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maximizing the explanatory power of constructions in Cognitive Construction Grammar(s)","authors":"Francisco Gonzálvez-García","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00039.GON","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00039.GON","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper suggests two possible ways in which cognitively-oriented constructionist approaches (Cognitive Construction\u0000 Grammar, Radical Construction Grammar, and Embodied Construction Grammar) could enhance the explanatory power of constructions. First, the\u0000 anatomy of a construction should spell out how the morphosyntactic realizations of arguments are specifically mapped onto their inherent\u0000 semantico-pragmatic properties, while also including detailed information concerning illocutionary force, information structure, register,\u0000 politeness, etc. Second, it is argued that coercion should be best understood as a continuum allowing for varying degrees of\u0000 (in-)compatibility between the verb and the construction taken as a whole. Moreover, parameterization and linguistic cueing prove useful to\u0000 handle the dynamic interaction of the morphosyntactic, semantico-pragmatic, and discourse-functional hallmarks of constructions, including\u0000 those which invite metonymic inferencing.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128667883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In search of constructions in writing process data","authors":"Gaëtanelle Gilquin","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00038.GIL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00038.GIL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores the possibility of identifying mentally stored constructions in writing process data, that\u0000 is, data that reproduce the process through which a text is written. The unit that serves as a basis for the identification of\u0000 constructions is the burst of writing, which corresponds to a chunk of text produced between two pauses. Bursts are examined in L1\u0000 French and L2 English keylogging data from the Process Corpus of English in Education and their potential constructional status is\u0000 considered.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130810595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patterns of coining and constructions","authors":"Romain Delhem, Caroline Marty","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00032.DEL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00032.DEL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000We develop the notion of pattern of coining found in some complete-inheritance models of Construction Grammar (Fillmore 1997; Kay 2013), which are processes used to coin new units based on analogy with an existing one. Unlike constructions, they cannot be considered systematically productive in synchrony. After providing measurement methods, we assess the productivity of three patterns (‧whelm, ‧licious and ‧holic). To do so, we carried out a statistical analysis using two web corpora. Unlike Kay, we show that the difference between constructions and patterns of coining is not so clear-cut, since patterns of coining may undergo constructionalization, and that qualitative aspects should be taken into account along with quantitative data when trying to assess the status of a word-formation pattern.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129303264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grammatical categories as paradigms in Construction Grammar","authors":"G. Diewald, K. Politt","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00033.DIE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00033.DIE","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This squib discusses the question whether Construction Grammar can account for the assumption of universal grammatical\u0000 categories (Bybee, Perkins, and Pagliuca 1994) that are prone to language change, e.g. tense.\u0000 Most publications in Construction Grammar tackle individual constructions, such as the way-construction (Jackendoff 1990). But it remains unclear how grammatical categories as a universal phenomenon can be\u0000 described in constructionist terms. We propose that there is a way to (a) describe grammatical categories, which per definition are encoded\u0000 paradigmatically, as constructions themselves and (b) to thereby strengthen the assumption of a set of universal grammatical categories.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"9 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133865678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concessive conditionals as a family of constructions","authors":"T. Leuschner","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00049.LEU","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00049.LEU","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This squib sketches an approach to concessive conditionals (CCs) from the perspective of Radical Construction\u0000 Grammar (Croft 2001). It brings earlier functional-typological work on CCs to bear on\u0000 language-particular constructionist analyses of CCs, using the notions of ‘family (of constructions)’ and ‘prototype’ as the bridge.\u0000 After suggesting how these notions can be applied to CCs under a functional-typological approach, the structure of the CC\u0000 sub-constructicon in German is discussed, and directions for future research are offered to round the squib off.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132731470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is an alternation?","authors":"Dirk Pijpops","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00053.PIJ","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00053.PIJ","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 An important subset of the empirical research conducted within usage-based construction grammar is formed by alternation\u0000 studies. Still, it is not always clear what exactly qualifies as an alternation. This paper takes stock of six possible ways of\u0000 defining an alternation. Three of these definitions are argued to be particularly suitable for the research program of usage-based\u0000 construction grammar. The paper zooms in on those and discusses their practical consequences and (dis)advantages.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124322276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Iconicity and word-formation","authors":"E. Tarasova, J. A. S. Fajardo","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00057.TAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00057.TAR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article aims to encourage a discussion of how evaluative morphemes conform to the principles of iconicity and\u0000 Construction Grammar through the examination of English Adj+ie/y nominalisations (e.g. brownie,\u0000 softie). Our analysis of the Adj+ie/y paradigm investigates conceptual processes\u0000 that employ these evaluative morphological forms. We propose a Bidirectional Conceptualisation Model (BCM) to demonstrate a\u0000 templatic correlation between iconic morphological components and evaluative connotations, by means of which the suffix\u0000 -ie/y is employed to instantiate a specific iconic value of the [[x-]A \u0000 ie/y]N construction. The BCM incorporates the Diminution: Pejoration ↔ Endearment scale, which\u0000 accounts for the semantic duality of appreciative and depreciative values realised by the morphological concept of diminution. The\u0000 results of the study support the idea that superficially different functions realised by one and the same morphological form are\u0000 related through interaction of Idealised Cognitive Models.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"238 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130937056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}