{"title":"Why we avoid the ‘Multiple Inheritance’ issue in Usage-based Cognitive Construction Grammar","authors":"Lotte Sommerer","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00056.SOM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00056.SOM","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This squib revisits the phenomenon of ‘Multiple Inheritance’ (MI) and discusses reasons why many usage-based,\u0000 cognitive construction grammarians seem to be avoiding it when modeling the constructicon and linguistic knowledge. After a brief\u0000 discussion of the concept and some examples from the literature, the paper examines potential reasons for the apparent\u0000 disinterest. Finally, the author points to some open questions regarding MI by discussing a specific example, namely modified NPN\u0000 constructions like day after hellish day or hour after hour of dominoes. It can be argued that\u0000 these strings inherit their characteristic features from several different abstract templates.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"99 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":"132418326","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":"Cognitive reality of constructions as a theoretical and methodological challenge in historical\u0000 linguistics","authors":"Eva Zehentner","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00060.ZEH","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00060.ZEH","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This squib discusses empirical challenges incurred by assuming cognitive reality as a defining feature of\u0000 constructions and the constructional network, as done in most usage-based, cognitive construction grammar approaches.\u0000 Specifically, it zooms in on the methodological challenges in identifying cognitively plausible constructions in historical data,\u0000 in particular when taking a highly exploratory, bottom-up approach with very little pre-selection or pre-analysis. I illustrate\u0000 this issue with the example of a current project on PPs in the history of English, and the various functions these have in\u0000 combination with verbs (from prototypical adjuncts to complements). I argue that the constraints of historical data make it\u0000 necessary to find different, new ways to determine which abstractions and distinctions are likely to have been represented in\u0000 minds of historical language users, and to furthermore identify changes in constructional networks over time.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"3 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":"129872785","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":"Strong resultative constructions in Romance between usage and norm","authors":"Domenica Romagno","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00054.ROM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00054.ROM","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The presence of strong resultative constructions in Romance languages is largely debated. In this paper, we\u0000 provide evidence of strong resultative constructions with adjectival predicate in Italo-Romance. Data from Southern Italian\u0000 varieties spoken in the area of Cosenza, in Northern Calabria, are discussed. The usage and distribution of two types of\u0000 adjectival resultative are accounted for in relation to both structural and functional properties, and sociolinguistic\u0000 variables.","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":"133825231","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":"Construction mining","authors":"Fabian Barteld, Alexander Ziem","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00030.BAR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00030.BAR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The German Constructicon Project (www.german-constructicon.de) aims at documenting grammatical constructions in contemporary standard German on the basis\u0000 of annotated corpus examples, including relations between constructions and between constructions and evoked semantic frames. So\u0000 far, the research focus has been mainly on the development and computational implementation of a constructicographic workflow\u0000 (including a parsing pipeline) that allows for addressing any kind of constructions on varying levels of schematicity,\u0000 idiomaticity, and abstractness. However, such an exemplar-driven procedure precludes us from systematically identifying\u0000 constructional candidates. In this article, we scrutinize ways to operationalize and implement data-mining procedures to\u0000 inductively identify construction candidates.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"104 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":"115693239","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":"Semantics and pragmatics in Construction Grammar","authors":"Benoît Leclercq","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00048.LEC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00048.LEC","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This squib provides a theoretical discussion on the use of the terms semantics and\u0000 pragmatics in Construction Grammar. In the literature, the difference between semantics and pragmatics is often\u0000 conceptualized either in terms of conventionality or in terms of truth-conditionality (Huang\u0000 2014, 299). It will be shown that, even though constructionists claim that there is no semantics–pragmatics distinction, both these\u0000 underlying concepts are central to the study of constructions. Therefore, the aim is twofold. First, in keeping with Cappelle (2017), it will be argued that constructionists should make more explicit the distinction between the two\u0000 types of (encoded) meaning. Second, it will be shown that constructionists need to be more terminologically consistent and agree on how to\u0000 use the terms semantics and pragmatics. Following Depraetere\u0000 (2019), I will argue that the terms semantics and pragmatics are most explanatory when defined in\u0000 truth-conditional terms. In this way, finer-grained understanding of the meaning of constructions can be achieved.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"29 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":"123986643","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 would it take for us to abandon Construction Grammar?","authors":"Thomas Hoffmann","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00042.HOF","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00042.HOF","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 One of the hallmarks of scientific theories is their falsifiability, i.e. the fact that they make predictions that\u0000 can objectively be proven wrong. Thus, it is paramount that researchers, including linguists, are able to state what kind of\u0000 evidence would lead them to abandon their scientific theory. Yet, researchers just like all other human beings are susceptible to\u0000 confirmation bias, i.e. the fact that they only seek evidence that supports their existing views. In this squib, I will raise the\u0000 question whether Construction Grammar can become a falsifiable theory.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"20 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":"116748485","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":"Dialect syntax in Construction Grammar","authors":"Cameron Morin, Guillaume Desagulier, J. Grieve","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00050.MOR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00050.MOR","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This squib focuses on two main issues. Firstly, it examines the ways in which constructionist approaches to language can\u0000 bring about an improved theoretical understanding of Double Modals (DMs) in dialects of English. DMs have proved to be a long-lasting,\u0000 notorious puzzle in formal linguistics, and have not received any general solution today, with much analysis devoted to their constituent\u0000 structure and their postulated layers of derivation, especially in generative models of language. Usage-based strands of Construction\u0000 Grammar (CxG) appear to naturally overcome such problems, while conveying a more cognitively and socially realistic picture of such dialect\u0000 variants. Secondly, and more importantly, we argue that such an improved, constructional understanding of DMs can also contribute to\u0000 advances in the modeling of dialect syntax in CxG, both theoretically and methodologically. In particular, DMs constitute an interesting\u0000 case of relatively rare and restricted syntactic constructions in the dialects they appear in, and they are likely to exhibit different\u0000 rates of entrenchment and network schematicity cross-dialectally. Moreover, the empirical challenges surrounding the measurement of DM usage\u0000 invite us to refine the methodological concept of triangulation, by sketching a two-step approach with a data-driven study of new types of\u0000 corpora on the one hand, and a hypothesis-driven experimental account of acceptability in relevant geographical locations on the other.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"4 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":"122318853","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":"Constructional creativity in a Romance language","authors":"Lucia Busso","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00031.BUS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00031.BUS","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The present contribution summarizes findings on the understudied area of Italian valency coercion – i. e. the interaction of verbs and argument structure constructions in novel and creative ways – from four different studies. It highlights their innovative character, theoretical significance, and crosslinguistic implications for Construction Grammar. The paper suggests that valency coercion resolution involve different phenomena, such as distributional properties of constructions and compatibility between verb and construction. Sociolinguistic factors such as age and diatopic variables are also suggested to be relevant.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"46 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":"127774545","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":"Making good on a promise","authors":"Remi van Trijp","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00059.TRI","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00059.TRI","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Construction Grammar was founded on the promise of maximal empirical coverage without compromising on formal\u0000 precision. Its main claim is that all linguistic knowledge can be represented as constructions, similar to the notion of\u0000 constructions from traditional grammars. As such, Construction Grammar may finally reconcile the needs of descriptive and\u0000 theoretical linguistics by establishing a common ground between them. Unfortunately, while the construction grammar community has\u0000 developed a sophisticated understanding of what a construction is supposed to be, many critics still believe that a construction\u0000 is simply a new jacket for traditional linguistic analyses and therefore inherits all of the problems of those analyses. The goal\u0000 of this article is to refute such criticisms by showing how constructions can be formalized as open-ended and multidimensional\u0000 linguistic representations that make no prior assumptions about the structure of a language. While this article’s proposal can be\u0000 simply written down in a pen-and-paper style, it verifies the validity of its approach through a computational implementation of\u0000 German field topology in Fluid Construction Grammar.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"98 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":"127130230","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}
Nikolas Koch, Antje Endesfelder Quick, S. Hartmann
{"title":"Individual differences in discourse priming","authors":"Nikolas Koch, Antje Endesfelder Quick, S. Hartmann","doi":"10.1075/BJL.00045.KOC","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/BJL.00045.KOC","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper we use corpora of four monolingual German-speaking children at 2 years of age to analyze the effect\u0000 of input on the activation of chunks and frame-and-slot patterns. For this purpose, we first investigate to what extent chunks and\u0000 patterns can be traced back to the direct input compared to input which is not part of the immediate discourse situation. Second,\u0000 we take mean length of utterance (MLU) into account to see how the level of proficiency influences the amount of priming in each\u0000 child. Results indicate that children with a lower MLU rely more on priming than children who are more proficient. This conclusion\u0000 is consistent with the usage-based assumption that children’s linguistic development starts with a strongly item-based\u0000 reproduction of input patterns that gradually gives rise to increasingly creative and productive uses of constructions.","PeriodicalId":414884,"journal":{"name":"Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 34 (2020)","volume":"26 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":"122160788","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}
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