A sisterhood of constructions? A structural priming approach to modelling links in the network of Objoid Constructions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12197320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamara Bouso (0000-0002-6059-6120, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, corresponding author), Marianne Hundt (0000-0001-6045-2314, University of Zurich), Laetitia Van Driessche (0000-0001-7823-2176, University of Zurich) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 313-344 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognitive Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0936-5907 • E-ISSN: 1613-3641 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/cog-2023-0103 |
| OpenAlex | W4396225029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 51 |
A central aim of Construction Grammar is to model links within the construct-i-con. This paper investigates three constructions that share one property: an atypical element in the object slot. The constructions are therefore not prototypically transitive. Structural priming (implemented with an automatic maze variant of self-paced reading) is used to test hypotheses on the relation among the Reaction Objoid ( She smiled her thanks ), the Cognate Objoid ( She smiled a sweet smile or He told a sly tale ), and the Superlative Objoid ( She smiled her sweetest ) Construction, and between two variants of the latter ( They worked (at) their hardest ). Results support transitivity as gradient: intransitive COCs prime the ROC and the SOC, whereas COCs with transitives only prime the ROC. For variants of the SOC, we find evidence of asymmetric priming with the bare SOC priming the at- SOC. Within-construction priming effects in the SOC are of greater magnitude than those with the at- SOC and the latter are weaker than those of the COC and of a rather different nature than those from the ROC. This suggests that speakers, rather than creating a constructeme between the bare and the at- SOC, store distinct but closely related constructions on a cline of transitivity
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| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |