The Grammar Network

Diessel, Holger

doi:10.1017/9781108671040

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“…By way of summary, this section looks at the ENC as a member of a network (Diessel 2019) of what could be called exclusion constructions, constructions expressing that a predication applies to element e in a clause and does not apply to elements that are not e but are comparable to e, i.e. the alternatives to e. We can start by distinguishing implicit and explicit strategies of expression.…”

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The Finnish exclusive-negative construction ei…ku(i)n in the network of exclusion expressions

Vilkuna

2021

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Abstract. This paper shows that Finnish has the option of expressing ‘only’-like exclusive meaning with a clausal construction, here called the Exclusive-Negative Construction, ENC. It is similar to the better-known French ne…que construction but differs from it at many points where Finnish and French grammar differ, especially in the way negation is expressed in the two languages. The Finnish ENC contains overt negation, which accounts for its somewhat narrower distribution than the alternative option, the use of the focus particle vain/vaan ‘only’. Adopting the Construction Grammar framework, the paper argues that the ENC is a simple clausal construction with the idiosyncrasy of mixed polarity, a formal division of the clause into a negative and affirmative part. Derivation from an underlying comparative is rejected, but it is shown that the ENC has associations to more explicit ways of expressing exclusion. These conclusions receive support from dialectal and other non-standard data. Kokkuvõte. Maria Vilkuna: Soome keele välistav-eitav konstruktsioon ei...ku(i)n välistust väljendavate keeleliste vahendite võrgustikus. Artiklis näidatakse, et soome keeles võib väljendada välistavat tähendust (nagu ainult) lausekonstruktsiooniga, mida artiklis nimetatakse välistavaks-eitavaks konstruktsiooniks (the Exclusive-Negative Construction, ENC). See sarnaneb prantsuse keele konstruktsiooniga ne...que, ent erineb sellest mitmes aspektis, kus soome ja prantsuse keel üldiseltki erinevad, eriti mis puudutab eituse väljendamise viise kahes keeles. Soome konstruktsioon sisaldab eksplitsiitset eitust, mis seletab seda, miks konstruktsiooni kasutusala on mõnevõrra kitsam kui selle alternatiivil, fookuspartiklil vain/vaan ‘ainult’. Kasutades konstruktsioonigrammatika raamistikku, näidatakse artiklis, et ENC on lausekonstruktsioon, mille eripäraks on kahetine polaarsus: konstruktsioon jaotub vormiliselt eitavaks ja jaatavaks osaks. Väidetakse, et konstruktsioon ei ole tuletatud komparatiivikonstruktsioonist, kuid on seotud eksplitsiitsemalt välistust väljendavate vahenditega. Neid järeldusi toetavad murrete ja muu mittestandardse keelekasutuse andmed.

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Section: Discussion: Implicitness and Explicitness In Exclusion Constructionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The present paper adopts the Construction Grammar framework (abbreviated Cxg; see e.g. Goldberg 1995, 2006, Fried 2015, Diessel 2019, in which constructions are seen as the basic units of grammar. Constructions are not derived from underlying structures, and the question of ellipsis is answered in a different way (Goldberg & Perek 2018).…”

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The Finnish exclusive-negative construction ei…ku(i)n in the network of exclusion expressions

Vilkuna

2021

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“…The psycholinguistic learning theory adopted in the current context is the Usage-Based approach, where learning is regarded as the result of discerning repeating patterns in the input, leading to the emergence of categories as the result of changes in the system (Diessel, 2019). Linguistic systematicity emerges from experience with individual usage events during exposure to spoken and written language, in a process that is graded, probabilistic, interactive, and context-sensitive, under constant pressure from changing linguistic input (Tomasello, 2003;Abbot-Smith and Tomasello, 2006;McCauley and Christiansen, 2019).…”

Section: Usage-based Learningmentioning

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Morpho-Orthographic Complexity in Affix Spelling in Hebrew: A Novel Psycholinguistic Outlook Across the School Years

2020

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The current study examined the factors underlying native Hebrew speakers' ability to learn homophonous affix spelling. It takes a novel view in investigating the effect of morpho-orthographic complexity of affix representation on the development of affix spelling across the school years. The role of five morpho-orthographic principles in homophonous affix letter spelling was studied: (i) morpho-orthographic transparency; (ii) affix letter prevalence; (iii) morpho-phonological competition; (iv) overtness of the phonological-orthographic link; and (v) phono-morpho-orthographic consistency. Taken together, these five principles of affix spelling constitute complexity metrics that pinpoint the loci of spelling challenge in homophonous Hebrew affixes. Study participants were 83 monolingual Hebrew-speaking students in four grade levels -2nd, 4th, 7th, and 10th grades. The research instrument was a spelling task of 244 words containing affix letters in 57 morphological categories. The affixes appearing in the target words represented 56 different affix categories, covering all non-root morphological roles, both inflectional and derivational. While correct spelling increased across grade levels, a hierarchy emerged in interaction with grade level regarding these criteria: Younger spellers were mostly assisted by morpho-orthographic sites, morphological category frequency, and phonological transparency -while spelling in higher grade levels was more affected by morpho-orthographic prevalence. Thus, knowledge of how morphological roles are deployed in the orthography emerges as the most significant factor that affects learning to spell affix letters in Hebrew.

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“…Therefore, derivation patterns and their productivity as parts of the speaker's or a community's linguistic knowledge are regarded as a potentially changing system, shaped by general cognitive processes such as categorization, prototypicality, extension etc. (Perek 2015, Diessel 2019, Lemmens 2019. Consequently, I view productivity as a graded and potentially changing phenomenon conditioned by various syntagmatic, semantic, paradigmatic and contextual factors, one of which is also register.…”

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Comparing the productivity of Estonian deverbal suffixes -mine, -us, and -ja in five registers: A quantitative usage-based approach

Pilvik

2021

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Abstract. This article provides an empirical, usage-based account of the different aspects of morphological productivity of three Estonian deverbal suffixes: -mine, -us, and -ja, in five different registers. The fundamental quantitative measures developed by Baayen (1989, 1992, 1993) and his colleagues are applied to relatively small corpus samples in order to test how well these measures conform to the linguist’s intuition about the productivity of the derivation patterns under different communicative settings. The results suggest that while the sample size does affect the reliability of the results, the measures prove a useful approximation of productivity in different registers, even for samples with low token counts. Kokkuvõte. Maarja-Liisa Pilvik: Eesti keele deverbaalsufiksite -mine, -us ja -ja produktiivsuse võrdlus viies registris: kvantitatiivne kasutuspõhine lähenemine. Artikkel annab empiirilise, kasutuspõhise ülevaate kolme eesti keele deverbaalsufiksi – -mine, -us ja -ja – produktiivsusest viies eesti keele registris. Produktiivsuse eri aspekte näitlikustavad kvantitatiivsed mõõdikud (Baayen 1989, 1992, 1993), mis on leidnud morfoloogilise produktiivsuse uurimustes laialdast kasutust. Analüüsi tulemused näitavad, et selleks uurimuses kasutatud valimi võrdlemisi väike maht mõjutab mõnevõrra mõõdikute tõlgendamist ning nende usaldusväärsust. Samas haakuvad kvantitatiivse analüüsi tulemused hästi keeleteadlase intuitsiooniga ning kasutatud morfoloogilise produktiivsuse mõõdikud võivad seega olla eri registrite empiiriliseks võrdlemiseks kasulikud isegi siis, kui valimid on korpuslingvistilises mõistes väikesed.

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The Grammar Network

Cited by 179 publications

References 370 publications

The Finnish exclusive-negative construction ei…ku(i)n in the network of exclusion expressions

The Finnish exclusive-negative construction ei…ku(i)n in the network of exclusion expressions

Morpho-Orthographic Complexity in Affix Spelling in Hebrew: A Novel Psycholinguistic Outlook Across the School Years

Comparing the productivity of Estonian deverbal suffixes -mine, -us, and -ja in five registers: A quantitative usage-based approach

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