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Abstract
The present article presents a corpus-illustrated description of the English expression the X itself which treats the expression as a grammatical construction, as defined in usage-based construction grammar (an entrenched semiotic routine in a speech community). Investigating the construction's semantic content, we find that it serves to set up a partonomy and construes one of the items therein as a core part, and that it, as an extension of its semantic meaning also has the discourse-pragmatic function of distributing discursive salience. The discussion in the present paper documents the initial steps in the building of a hypothesis regarding the nature of the X itself– one which can be tested and refined in future corpus-based empirical usage-based linguistic research.
Original language | English |
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Journal | RASK – International journal of language and communication |
Volume | 41 |
Pages (from-to) | 3-38 |
Number of pages | 36 |
ISSN | 0909-8976 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- cognitive linguistics
- conceptual semantics
- construction grammar
- construal operations
- hypothesis-building
- pragmatic points
- construal
- usage-based language models
- usage-based model
- English language
- English grammar
- syntax
- British National Corpus
- Corpus of Contemporary American English
- TIME Magazine Corpus
- corpus linguistics
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