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The Making and Breaking of Classification Models in Linguistics: A Multimethod Perspective on Constructional Alternations

The Making and Breaking of Classification Models in Linguistics: A Multimethod Perspective on Constructional Alternations

Klavan, Jane

Hardcover

Series: Cognitive Linguistics Research, Book 66

Foreign Language GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 3110665042
ISBN13: 9783110665048
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Jun 4 2024
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The book provides a methodological blueprint for the study of constructional alternations - using corpus-linguistic methods in combination with different types of experimental data. The book looks at a case study from Estonian. This morphologically rich language is typologically different from Indo-European languages such as English. Corpus-based studies allow us to detect patterns in the data and determine what is typical in the language. Experiments are needed to determine the upper and lower limits of human classification behaviour. They give us an idea of what is possible in a language and show how human classification behaviour is susceptible to more variation than corpus-based models lead us to believe. Corpora and forced choice data tell us that when we produce language, we prefer one construction. Acceptability judgement data tell us that when we comprehend language, we judge both constructions as acceptable. The book makes a theoretical contribution to the what, why, and how of constructional alternations.

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