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Collostructions

Investigating the interaction of words and constructions

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ID5771395
AuthorsAnatol Stefanowitsch (0000-0002-8780-775X), Stefan Th Grie (0000-0002-6497-3958)
Year2003
Volume8
Issue2
Pages209-243
Publication date2003-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Corpus Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1384-6655 • E-ISSN: 1569-9811
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ijcl.8.2.03ste
OpenAlexW2124819629
LanguageEN
Citations received331
References cited15

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

Abstraction · Argument (complex analysis · Construction Grammar · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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