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The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar
The last decade has seen a rise in popularity in construction-based approaches to grammar. The various approaches within the rubric 'construction grammar' all see language as a network of…
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Preposition Placement in English: A Usage-based Approach
TLDR
Preposition placement: the case for a construction grammar account is argued and the verdict is concluded.
The Black Kenyan English vowel system: An acoustic phonetic analysis
While acoustic phonetic studies have been carried out on all types of Englishes around the world, the second language variety spoken in Kenya has so far not been investigated acoustically. The…
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Creativity and Construction Grammar: Cognitive and Psychological Issues
  • T. Hoffmann
  • Psychology
    Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
  • 1 September 2018
Abstract Creativity is an important evolutionary adaptation that allows humans to think original thoughts, to find solutions to problems that have never been encountered before and, potentially, to…
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Corpora and introspection as corroborating evidence: The case of preposition placement in English relative clauses
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It is shown that treating the two types of data as corroborating evidence allows a far more detailed analysis of the categorical and variable constraints governing syntactic variation than the two kinds of data would have allowed individually.
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Construction Grammar : Introduction
Abstract Phrasal and Clausal Constructions
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World Englishes -- problems, properties and prospects : selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference
1. Series editor's preface: The World Englishes conference in Regensburg 2007 - a retrospective look (by Schneider, Edgar W.) 2. Acknowledgements 3. Introduction (by Hoffmann, Thomas) 4.…
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Variation, change and constructions in English
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It will be shown how constructionist approaches provide new insights for the study of variation and change in the English language as well as how data from English can help to refine construction grammar theories.
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The cognitive evolution of Englishes
Schneider’s Dynamic Model (2007) predicts that it is the lexicon-syntax interface that exhibits first traces of the emergence of characteristic structural innovations during the phase of…
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