Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and constructions
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This paper introduces an extension of collocational analysis that takes into account grammatical structure and is specifically geared to investigating the interaction of lexemes and the grammatical constructions associated with them. The method is framed in a construction-based approach to language, i.e. it assumes that grammar consists of signs (form-meaning pairs) and is thus not fundamentally different from the lexicon. The method is applied to linguistic expressions at various levels of abstraction (words, semi-fixed phrases, argument structures, tense, aspect and mood). The method has two main applications: first, to increase the adequacy of grammatical description by providing an objective way of identifying the meaning of a grammatical construction and determining the degree to which particular slots in it prefer or are restricted to a particular set of lexemes; second, to provide data for linguistic theory-building.
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Contingency of association is key in cognitive-linguistic, corpus-based, and statistical models of language structure such as collostructional analysis.
“Contingency of association is similarly key in cognitive-linguistic, corpus-based, and statistical models of language structure like collostructional analysis (Gries & Stefanowitsch, 2004;Stefanowitsch & Gries, 2003).”
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- Authors
- Stefanowitsch, A., & Gries, S. T.
- Venue
- International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Published
- 2003-12-31
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 209-243
- ISSN
- 1384-6655 (ISSN-L)
- 1569-9811
- OpenAlex
- W2124819629
- Cited by
- 1,492
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 113.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › linguistics and terminology studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Lexicography and Language Studies
- Keywords
- collocation analysis, grammatical constructions, construction grammar, argument structure, tense-aspect-mood, grammatical description
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