A Corpus-Driven Analysis of the 𝑂𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ Collocation: A Typological Perspective

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Pages: 43-90
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/ASLB2284

Abstract:

The paper analyzes the whole population of the statistically significant open mouth collocation (488 tokens), drawing on theories like Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure (Goldberg, Croft), Valency Theory (Herbst and Schüller), Radical Construction Grammar (Croft). An eight-step procedure is used in identifying, categorizing and classifying the language-specific emergent constructions with their construction-specific grammatical categories. They are the primitive units of syntactic representation organized in taxonomies of part-whole inheritance semantic relations. In an attempt at giving an explanation of the collocation-specific constructions and their emergent uses, typology theory and theory of language (Croft) are an intergral part of the methodology thus making the description cross-linguistically valid and the description of the morphosyntactic structures comparable not only within but also across languages.

Keywords:

collocation; construction grammar approach to argument structure; radical construction grammar; morphosyntax; typology.

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