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Preposition placement in English : a usage-based approach
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ISBN: 9781107631731 9780521760478 9780511933868 9780511933318 0511933312 051193386X 052176047X 1107216494 0511853130 1282943774 9786612943775 0511931956 0511930615 0511928106 0511925573 1107631734 9781107216495 9780511853135 9781282943773 6612943777 9780511931956 9780511930614 9780511928109 9780511925573 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Preposition placement, the competition between preposition stranding (What is he talking about?) and pied-piping (About what is he talking?), is one of the most interesting areas of syntactic variation in English. This is the first book to investigate preposition placement across all types of clauses that license it, such as questions, exclamations and wh-clauses, and those which exhibit categorical stranding, such as non-wh relative clauses, comparatives, and passives. Drawing on over 100 authentic examples from both first-language (English) and second-language (Kenyan) data, it combines experimental and corpus-based approaches to provide a full grammatical account of preposition placement in both varieties of English. Although written within the usage-based construction grammar framework, the results are presented in theory-neutral terminology, making them accessible to researchers from all syntactic schools. This pioneering volume will be of interest not only to syntacticians, but also second-language researchers and those working on variation in English.


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English comparative correlatives : diachronic and synchronic variation at the lexicon-syntax interface
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ISBN: 1108569854 1108755003 1108477216 1108756697 9781108755009 1108702155 9781108569859 9781108477215 9781108702157 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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One of the most intriguing features of languages is that speakers can produce novel grammatical utterances that they have never heard before. Consequently, most linguists agree that the mental grammars of speakers are complex systems that must be more abstract than the input they are exposed to. Yet, linguists differ as to how general and abstract speakers' mental representations have to be to allow this grammatical creativity. This book addresses this issue by empirically investigating one specific construction, English comparative correlatives (e.g., the more you eat, the fatter you get). Drawing on authentic corpus data from Old English to Present-day English varieties around the world, it shows how input frequency and domain-general cognitive principles affect the complex mental network of constructions that underlies speakers' linguistic behaviour. This pioneering and original study will be of interest to scholars and students of English syntax and English historical linguistics.


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Construction grammar : the structure of English
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ISBN: 9781107601123 9781107013490 9781139004213 1107601126 1107013496 1139004212 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"What do speakers of a language have to know, and what can they 'figure out' on the basis of that knowledge, in order for them to use their language successfully? This is the question at the heart of Construction Grammar, an approach to the study of language that views all dimensions of language as equal contributors to shaping linguistic expressions. The trademark characteristic of Construction Grammar is the insight that language is a repertoire of more or less complex patterns - constructions - that integrate form and meaning. This textbook shows how a Construction Grammar approach can be used to analyze the English language, offering explanations for language acquisition, variation and change. It covers all levels of syntactic description, from word-formation and inflectional morphology to phrasal and clausal phenomena and information-structure constructions. Each chapter includes exercises and further readings, making it an accessible introduction for undergraduate students of linguistics and English language"--


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The cognitive foundation of post-colonial Englishes
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ISBN: 9781108909730 9781108829236 1108829236 1108909736 1108904718 1108905714 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Varieties of English are spoken all over the world from Africa to Asia, from Europe to America. In addition to its use as a foreign language, English in many of these countries is a first or second language variety that initially arose in a colonial setting. Currently, the most influential sociolinguistic model for the evolution of these 'Post-Colonial Englishes' is the Dynamic Model. In this Element, I outline how Construction Grammar, the most prominent cognitive syntactic theory, can provide a cognitive foundation for the assumptions made by the Dynamic Model. As I shall argue, Construction Grammar naturally complements the Dynamic Model and, in addition to that, a 'Constructionist Grammar Approach to the Dynamic Model' approach generates new research questions concerning the productivity of syntactic patterns across Dynamic Model phases.


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Das Gute.
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ISBN: 9783110355314 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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Natürlich gut : Aufsätze zur Philosophie von Philippa Foot.
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ISBN: 9783868380743 Year: 2010 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Ontos

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The Oxford handbook of construction grammar
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ISBN: 9780195396683 0195396685 9780190463212 019046321X Year: 2013 Volume: *1 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press


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Muslims and the New Information and Communication Technologies : Notes from an Emerging and Infinite Field
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ISBN: 9400772467 9400772475 9789400772465 Year: 2013 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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This volume deals with the so-called new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and their interrelationship with Muslims and the interpretation of Islam. This volume taps into what has been labelled Media Studies 2.0, which has been characterized by an intensified focus on everyday meanings and ‘lay’ users – in contrast to earlier emphases on experts or self-acclaimed experts. This lay adoption of ICT and the subsequent digital ‘literacy’ is not least noticeable among Muslim communities. According to some global estimates, one in ten internet users is a Muslim. This volume offers an ethnography of ICT in Muslim communities. The contributors to this volume also demonstrate a new kind of moderation with regard to more sweeping and avant-gardistic claims, which have characterized the study of ICT previously. This moderation has been combined with a keen attention to the empirical material but also deliberations on new quantitative and qualitative approaches to ICT, Muslims and Islam, for instance the digital challenges and changes wrought on the Qur’an, Islam’s sacred scripture. As such this volume will also be relevant for people interested in the study of ICT and the blooming field of digital humanities. Scholars of Islam and the Islamic world have always be engaged and entangled in their object of study. The developments within ICT have also affected how scholars take part in and influence public Islamic and academic discussions. This complicated issue provides basis for a number of meta-reflexive studies in this volume. It will be essential for students and scholars within Islamic studies but will also be of interest for anthropologists, sociologists and others with a humanistic interest in ICT, religion and Islam.


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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : eine Propädeutik
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ISBN: 3937715010 Year: 2004 Publisher: Wiesbaden Marix

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