Herbst T (2018)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2018
Publisher: Springer
Edited Volumes: Lexical Collocation Analysis: Advances and Applications
Series: Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
City/Town: Cham
Pages Range: 1-22
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92582-0_1
This chapter argues in favour of not regarding collocation and valency as strictly discrete categories but rather seeing them as near neighbours in the lexis-grammar continuum. Following Bybee's (Usage-based theory and exemplar representation of constructions. In Hoffmann T, Trousdale G (eds) The Oxford handbook of construction grammar. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 49-69, 2013) analysis of the drive me crazy construction, a suggestion will be made for presenting both collocational and valency phenomena in terms of constructions. It will be argued that the constructicon representing speakers' linguistic knowledge contains both item-specific information and generalized information in the form of Goldbergian argument structure constructions (Goldberg 2016) and in particular that the description of valency slots should provide exemplar representations based on the principles of collostructional analysis as developed by Stefanowitsch and Gries (Inter J Coprus Lingusitics 8: 209-243, 2003).
APA:
Herbst, T. (2018). Is language a Collostructicon? – A Proposal for Looking at Collocations, Valency, Argument Structure and Other Constructions. In Pascual Cantos-Gómez & Moisés Almela-Sánchez (Eds.), Lexical Collocation Analysis: Advances and Applications. (pp. 1-22). Cham: Springer.
MLA:
Herbst, Thomas. "Is language a Collostructicon? – A Proposal for Looking at Collocations, Valency, Argument Structure and Other Constructions." Lexical Collocation Analysis: Advances and Applications. Ed. Pascual Cantos-Gómez & Moisés Almela-Sánchez, Cham: Springer, 2018. 1-22.
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