TY - JOUR

T1 - Fatal attraction

T2 - Inheritance and collostruction in the 'ihjel'-construction

AU - Jensen, Kim Ebensgaard

PY - 2012/4/10

Y1 - 2012/4/10

N2 - The purpose of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, it presents an argument for usage-based inheritance models over complete inheritance models in construction grammar. It is argued that, with the principle of inductive language learning as their foundation, usage-based inheritance models allow for redundancies and incongruities in construction networks which enables linguists to take into account details of language use, which would otherwise not be facilitated in complete inheritance models. Secondly, making use of the method of collostructional analysis, the article offers a corpus-based description of the use of the Danish ihjel-construction which accounts for patterns of attraction of construction-verb attraction, patterns of productivity, and various types of subconstructions, including item- and item-class-based ones and metaphorical extensions. The description of the ihjel-construction should also illustrate the superiority of usage-based inheritance models over complete inheritance models in construction grammar-based language description.

AB - The purpose of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, it presents an argument for usage-based inheritance models over complete inheritance models in construction grammar. It is argued that, with the principle of inductive language learning as their foundation, usage-based inheritance models allow for redundancies and incongruities in construction networks which enables linguists to take into account details of language use, which would otherwise not be facilitated in complete inheritance models. Secondly, making use of the method of collostructional analysis, the article offers a corpus-based description of the use of the Danish ihjel-construction which accounts for patterns of attraction of construction-verb attraction, patterns of productivity, and various types of subconstructions, including item- and item-class-based ones and metaphorical extensions. The description of the ihjel-construction should also illustrate the superiority of usage-based inheritance models over complete inheritance models in construction grammar-based language description.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - cognitive linguistics

KW - construction grammar

KW - usage-based grammar

KW - usage-based language models

KW - usage-based linguistics

KW - adverbial particles

KW - constructional inheritance

KW - collostructional analysis

KW - simple collexeme analysis

KW - principle of semantic compatibility

KW - phrasal verbs

KW - idiomaticity

KW - degree of idiomaticity

KW - metqaphor

KW - item-specific constructions

KW - item-class-specific constructions

KW - Korpus2000

KW - Korpus90

KW - DFK Loke

KW - Danish language

KW - Danish grammar

M3 - Journal article

VL - 3

SP - 1

EP - 30

JO - Scandinavian Studies in Language

JF - Scandinavian Studies in Language

SN - 1904-7843

IS - 2

ER -