Constructionist approaches: Past, present, future

Ungerer, Tobias; Hartmann, Stefan

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“…In addition, it makes sense not to draw a categorical distinction between linguistic and non-linguistic signs but to conceive of language as one semiotic resource among others. This follows out of the gradualist approach of cognitive linguistics, evident in its embracement of prototype theory (e.g., Lakoff 1987) and in concepts like the lexiconsyntax continuum that plays a crucial role in Construction Grammar (Ungerer & Hartmann 2023). This gradualist approach, then, also offers a heuristic framework for modelling the emergence of linguistic signs out of pre-linguistic precursors.…”

Section: A Usage-based Perspective On the Evolution Of Languagementioning

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Cognitive Linguistics and Language Evolution

Pleyer,

Hartmann

2024

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The evolution of language has developed into a large research field. Two questions are particularly relevant for this strand of research: firstly, how did the human capacity for language emerge? And secondly, which processes of cultural evolution are involved both in the evolution of human language from non-linguistic communication and in the continued evolution of human languages? Much research on language evolution that addresses these two questions is highly compatible with the usage-based approach to language pursued in cognitive linguistics. Focusing on key topics such as comparing human language and animal communication, experimental approaches to language evolution, and evolutionary dynamics in language, this Element gives an overview of the current state-of-the-art of language evolution research and discusses how cognitive linguistics and research on the evolution of language can cross-fertilise each other. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Section: A Usage-based Perspective On the Evolution Of Languagementioning

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Cognitive Linguistics and Language Evolution

Pleyer,

Hartmann

2024

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“…Inkelas and Zoll (2005: 2-4) distinguish two major approaches to reduplication, one focusing on phonology, the other on semantic as well as syntactic properties. From the perspective of usage-based Construction Grammar (see, e.g., Ungerer and Hartmann 2023), we can conceive of shm-reduplication as a construction, i.e., a pairing of form and meaning at various levels of generality. By combining the concatenation of words with a quasi-paradigmatic stem alternation, shm-reduplication blends features traditionally attributed to syntax with features that are commonly seen as morphological.…”

Section: The English Shm-reduplication Constructionmentioning

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“Chaos theory, shmaos theory”: Creativity and routine in English shm-reduplication

Hartmann,

Ungerer

2024

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This paper investigates an “extravagant” construction at the interface of morphology and syntax: English shm-reduplication, a pattern in which a word is immediately repeated, but the initial consonant or consonant cluster is either replaced by /ʃm/, or /ʃm/ is added to the beginning of a word if it begins with a vowel. So far, research on shm-reduplication has been limited to small samples of the construction and has mainly focused on its phonological and morphosyntactic properties rather than its semantics. The present study aims at filling this gap with a corpus-based analysis of a larger dataset from the web corpus ENCOW16AX. Our findings suggest that shm-reduplication combines elements of routine and creativity: While the pattern is largely unconstrained in its semantics, its unusual syntactic profile and tight connection with specific communicative contexts mark it as an innovative and “extravagant” construction.

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“…구문이란 언어학적 지식에서 중요한 단위이다. 구체적으로, 구문은 추상성(abstraction)과 복잡성(complexity)의 각기 다른 정도에서 형태-의미 짝짓기를 말한다 (Ungerer & Hartmann, 2023). 여기서 추상성이란 규모가 넓은 항목을 가리킨다.…”

Section: 구문에서 언어학적 단위로서의 형태-의미 짝짓기unclassified

The Effectiveness of Using Movie Material to Develop Form-Meaning Pair Skills

Kim

2023

J Eng Teach Movie Media

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This paper aims to investigate whether movie material is effective in developing skills related to form-meaning pairs. To accomplish this, four participants were recruited for the study, three of whom were at an intermediate level and one at a low-intermediate level based on their TOEIC scores. Among them, two intermediate level participants and the low-intermediate participant had extensive experience using movies as learning material. The participants were given two tests: a form→meaning pair test and a meaning→form pair test using an animated movie. Following these tests, they underwent an additional set of tests using a children’s novel. The results from the animation tests revealed that all the participants were proficient in deriving pragmatic meaning when the examiner disregarded the correctness or incorrectness of the translation. However, three of them struggled with the meaning→form pair test. On the other hand, the results from the novel tests indicated that all the participants performed significantly better in the meaning→form pair test compared to the same test using the animation. These findings suggest that movie users quickly adapt to capturing pragmatic meaning, but they may require training in developing meaning→form pair skills. Merely using movies does not guarantee effective bi-directional understanding of form-meaning and meaning-form pairs. Further details will be discussed.

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Constructionist approaches: Past, present, future

Cited by 5 publications

References 102 publications

Cognitive Linguistics and Language Evolution

Cognitive Linguistics and Language Evolution

“Chaos theory, shmaos theory”: Creativity and routine in English shm-reduplication

The Effectiveness of Using Movie Material to Develop Form-Meaning Pair Skills

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