Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew

Kuzar, Ron

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“…Nevertheless, these two studies do not, unfortunately, provide examples of there sentences with become nor do they discuss their behaviors. 4 As far as I know, Kuzar (2012) is the only study to investigate there sentences with become (without the adjectival phrases) found in present-day English. Kuzar (2012: 68) makes the following observations:…”

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“…In contrast, there sentences with become are required to express a change of state because of its lexical meaning. The discussion by Kuzar (2012) is useful in elaborating on the kind of appearance there sentences with become can represent. Consider the sentences with the verb develop from (26a-b) through to (28).…”

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“…However, few studies have examined sentences such as (1a–c), with Kuzar (2012) being a rare exception. In this respect, the detailed investigation of there sentences with become helps elucidate the characteristics of both there constructions and the verb, a topic unexamined so far.…”

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The usage of there sentences with become: the relationship between change of state and appearance/occurrence

Mino¹

2023

English Language and Linguistics

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Numerous studies have investigated the kinds of verbs that can be used with there constructions. Generally, only existence and appearance verbs can occur in there constructions. However, some cases have been observed involving verbs not lexically expressing existence or appearance. This study focuses on there sentences with the verb become which are noteworthy in the following two respects. First, although the verb become is not an existence or appearance verb but a change-of-state verb, the verb is felicitously used with there constructions. Second, become is used without an adjectival or nominal complement, a unique argument realization pattern of the verb not found in other syntactic contexts. This study, based on a detailed examination of actual data in corpora, claims that there sentences with become express the appearance/occurrence of an entity. Although the postverbal noun is structurally a subject in there constructions and the subject of the verb become is usually interpreted as an entity undergoing a change, the postverbal noun of there sentences with become is an entity that has arisen as a result of the changing event.

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Mino¹

2023

English Language and Linguistics

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“…Modern Hebrew has two default word orders, which differ along several grammatical and lexical axes and are highly relevant to the notion of subject (Berman 1980;Ravid 1995;Goldenberg 1998;Kuzar 2012). Framed in typological and discursive parlance, these orientations are two alignments (Comrie 1978;Dixon 1979), reflecting Dryer's (1997) SV vs. VS contrastive orders, which he regards as a fundamental property of language.…”

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Usage patterns in the development of Hebrew grammatical subjects

Dattner

Kertes

Zwilling

et al. 2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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The grammatical subject is a multi-faceted linguistic notion embedded in morphology, syntax and discourse-pragmatics. In Hebrew, grammatical subjects are associated with two distinct word orders, differing along grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic axes. The study examines the growth and proliferation of Hebrew grammatical subjects in the spontaneous speech of preschool children in a Usage-Based perspective, taking into account inflectional, syntactic and semantic properties of the clause side by side with discursive information. The corpus used for this study consisted of the recordings of 54 children in six age groups from two to eight years, engaged in triadic peer talk. Subject, predicate morphology and word order were coded, and utterances were coded according to their conversational roles. Using cluster analysis, each age group was found to have a characteristic usage pattern of subjects with associated syntactic, semantic and discursive properties, underscoring the acquisition and development of grammatical subjects in Hebrew. The usage patterns emerging from the current corpus are taken as a manifestation of the Discourse Profile Constructions notion: probabilistic form-function correlations consisting of multiple sources of formal and functional information, pairing a usage pattern of clauses with a unified construal and discourse function. Three Discourse Profile Constructions emerged from the data: joint action planning, conversational narrative, and conversational presentation. Each of these was associated with a different patterning of lexical or pronominal subjects coupled with predicates with specific temporal features and different word order. These findings suggest that gaining command of the subject category is linked to communicative functions in development.

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“…While broad typological studies in construction grammar are rare (an exception being Croft, 2001, Chapters 8-9), contrastive studies are more common, typically comparing similar cxns in two or more closely related languages. Examples include Barðdal (2004) on impersonal cxns in German, Icelandic and Faroese, Hilpert (2008) on future cxns in Germanic languages, Kuzar (2012) on sentence patterns in English and Hebrew, the papers in , and many more.…”

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Constructicography

Ohara¹,

Torrent²,

Lyngfelt³

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Constructional Approaches to Language

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This book has been long in the making, but now having the result under our eyes, we believe that it was worth the wait. The idea of compiling a volume collecting the experiences of the various constructicon initiatives going on around the world was born in the context of an international collaboration between the universities at Gothenburg in Sweden and Juiz de Fora in Brazil, and the excellent opportunities to interact and learn from each other's experiences afforded by both research visits and the international FrameNet workshops organized jointly by the Swedish and Brazilian teams, together with the FrameNet group in Berkeley, California: IFNW 2013 in Berkeley, IFNW 2016, collocated with ICCG9 in Juiz de Fora, and the upcoming IFNW 2018 with the special theme Multilingual FrameNets and Constructicons, collocated with LREC in Miyazaki, Japan. Moreover, profitable discussions relevant to the works presented in this book took place in the special sessions Cognitively grounded lexica, constructicons, and metaphor repositories, at ICLC12 in Edmonton, Canada, in 2013, and Constructionist resources -a workshop in honor of Charles J. Fillmore, at ICCG8 in Osnabrück, Germany, in 2014.During these events, most -if not all -authors of the chapters in this volume had the chance to share their points of view, positions and questions on the development of constructionist resources. Beyond the group of authors whose contributions make this book, we'd like to thank our -and their -interlocutors.The work on preparing the volume has been funded in part by the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES, Brazil), and by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, RJ), but it could not have happened without the long-term support given to both Språkbanken (the Swedish Language Bank) -now well into its fifth decade -by the University of Gothenburg, its Faculty of Arts and its Department of Swedish, and to FrameNet Brasil by the Federal University of Juiz de Fora.The volume editors would like to express their gratitude to the anonymous reviewers for their thorough and insightful comments and suggestions, to the series editor Jan-Ola Östman for his final vetting of the volume, and to Esther Roth and Susan Hendriks at John Benjamins, always helpful and unerringly professional, under whose watchful eyes the volume went from idea to finished product. Last but viii Constructicography not least, we are grateful to the person without whom none of all this would have happened: the late Charles J. Fillmore. For inspiring us all, for being a core element in our research frame(works), for having guided our ways into the development of constructicons, and for being such a great guy, we dedicate this volume to Chuck.

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Sentence Patterns in English and Hebrew

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