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Layering of Size and Type Noun Constructions in English / Lieselotte Brems.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 74Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (409 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110252910
  • 9783110252927
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425.54 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • P271 .B748 2011
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Part I: Preliminaries -- Chapter 1: Description of the topic and state of the art -- Chapter 2: A cognitive-functional constructional framework for the English NP -- Chapter 3: Grammaticalization, delexicalization and subjectification in SN- and TN-constructions -- Part II: Synchronic and diachronic corpus studies -- Chapter 4: SN-constructions -- Chapter 5: Small SN-constructions -- Chapter 6: TN-constructions -- Chapter 7: Descriptive-theoretical consequences and prospects for further research -- Corpora -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at the synchronic layers of binominal size noun and type noun uses (a bunch/a load of X; a sort of X; a Y type of X) and reconsiders the framework of grammaticalization in view of issues raised by the phrases under discussion. As a result, a construction grammar-approach to grammaticalization is developed which does justice to the syntagmatic lexical, or collocational, reclustering observed in the data within an eclectic cognitive-functional approach.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Part I: Preliminaries -- Chapter 1: Description of the topic and state of the art -- Chapter 2: A cognitive-functional constructional framework for the English NP -- Chapter 3: Grammaticalization, delexicalization and subjectification in SN- and TN-constructions -- Part II: Synchronic and diachronic corpus studies -- Chapter 4: SN-constructions -- Chapter 5: Small SN-constructions -- Chapter 6: TN-constructions -- Chapter 7: Descriptive-theoretical consequences and prospects for further research -- Corpora -- Notes -- References -- Index

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On the basis of synchronic and diachronic data analysis, the volume takes a close look at the synchronic layers of binominal size noun and type noun uses (a bunch/a load of X; a sort of X; a Y type of X) and reconsiders the framework of grammaticalization in view of issues raised by the phrases under discussion. As a result, a construction grammar-approach to grammaticalization is developed which does justice to the syntagmatic lexical, or collocational, reclustering observed in the data within an eclectic cognitive-functional approach.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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