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Subject(s)

• Construction grammar [Browse]

Editor

• Lyngfelt, Benjamin [Browse]

Series

• Constructional approaches to language ; v. 22. [More in this series]
• Constructional approaches to language ; volume 22 [More in this series]

Summary note

"In constructionist theory, a constructicon is an inventory of constructions making up the full set of linguistic units in a language. In applied practice, it is a set of construction descriptions - a 'dictionary of constructions'. The development of constructicons in the latter sense typically means combining principles of both construction grammar and lexicography, and is probably best characterized as a blend between the two traditions. We call this blend constructicography. The present volume is a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of constructicography. After a general introduction follow six chapters presenting constructicon projects for English, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish, respectively, often in relation to a framenet of the language. In addition, there is a chapter addressing the interplay between linguistics and language technology in constructicon development, and a final chapter exploring the prospects for interlingual constructicography. This is the first major publication devoted to constructicon development and it should be particularly relevant for those interested in construction grammar, frame semantics, lexicography, the relation between grammar and lexicon, or linguistically informed language technology"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction: Constructicons and constructicography / Benjamin Lyngfelt
• The FrameNet constructicon in action / Russell Lee-Goldman and Miriam R.L. Petruck
• Constructicography at work: Theory meets practice in the Swedish constructicon / Benjamin Lyngfelt, Linnéa Bäckström, Lars Borin, Anna Ehrlemark and Rudolf Rydstedt
• Towards continuity between the lexicon and the constructicon in FrameNet Brasil / Tiago Timponi Torrent, Ely Edison da Silva Matos, Ludmila Lage, Adrieli Laviola, Tatiane Tavares, Vânia Gomes de Almeida and Natália Sigiliano
• Relations between frames and constructions: A proposal from the Japanese FrameNet constructicon / Kyoko Ohara
• A constructicon for Russian: Filling in the gaps / Laura A. Janda, Olga Lyashevskaya, Tore Nesset, Ekaterina Rakhilina and Francis M. Tyers
• Constructing a constructicon for German: Empirical, theoretical, and methodological issues / Hans C. Boas and Alexander Ziem
• Linguistics vs. language technology in constructicon building and use / Lars Borin, Dana Dannélls and Normunds Gruzitis
• Aligning constructicons across languages: A trilingual comparison between English, Swedish, and Brazilian Portuguese / Benjamin Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Adrieli Laviola, Linnéa Bäckström, Anna Helga Hannesdóttir and Ely Edison da Silva Matos.

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ISBN

• 9789027201003 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
• 9027201005 (hardcover : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2018014202

OCLC

1029442454

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