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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 language | English |
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Journal | Suvremena Lingvistika |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 77 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-26 |
ISSN | 0586-0296 |
Publication status | Published - 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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