Too female to be ruthless and too pregnant to argue: Semantic conflict and resolution in the [too ADJ to V]-construction

Kim Ebensgaard Jensen

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    Abstract

    Taking usage-based construction grammar as its theoretical framework, this paper addresses the interplay between construal operations and semantic conflict resolution in anomalous instances of the relatively unexplored English [too ADJ to V]-construction. Drawing on a questionnaire analysis in which native-speaker respondents offer their readings of anomalous instances of the construction, the paper discusses strategies of semantic construction-lexeme conflict resolution with a view to inferring construal operations involved therein.

    Original languageEnglish
    JournalSuvremena Lingvistika
    Volume40
    Issue number77
    Pages (from-to)1-26
    ISSN0586-0296
    Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 2014

    Keywords

    • adjectival construction
    • adjectival semantics
    • construction grammar
    • cognitive linguistics
    • corpus linguistics
    • Corpus of Contemporary American English
    • construal
    • meaning construction
    • scalarity
    • image schemata
    • qualitative analysis
    • constructional semantics
    • construction-lexeme interaction
    • semantic confict
    • semantic resolution
    • semantic shift
    • English grammar
    • cognitive semantics
    • construal operations
    • divergent language use
    • collostruction
    • collexeme
    • weak collostruction strength
    • construction-lexeme anomaly
    • scalar adjectival construction
    • semantic conflict resolution

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    • Constructions

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    • Construal operations

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