A Case for Construction Grammar
Wh -X VP Y Constructions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8864085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isabel Negro Alousque (0000-0002-5836-6166, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 206-219 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2018.1545823 |
| OpenAlex | W2931832675 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper addresses the issue of implicational constructions. Following Construction Grammar, which argues that constructions are operational at all levels of linguistic description, we advocate the existence of implicational constructions. In contrast with the traditional view of implicature, which differentiates between grammatically guided and contextually guided implicature (conventional vs. conversational implicature), we claim that implicature is grammatically encoded and captured by the construction itself, which has specific morphosyntactic, semantic, pragmatic and prosodic features. Our claim is supported by the analysis of the formal and semantic properties of a group of implicational constructions used in spoken discourse which can be said to constitute a constructional family: the Wh-XVPY interrogative family
Construction Grammar · Grammar · Implicature · Interrogative · Interrogative word · Linguistics · Pragmatics · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |