Papers by Doris Schönefeld
Spuren Leipziger (Vor-)Denker in der modernen Linguistik
Anglosachsen: Leipzig und die englischsprachige Kultur, 2010
The chapter is concerned with some of the inspirations that (English) linguistics drew from two p... more The chapter is concerned with some of the inspirations that (English) linguistics drew from two pioneers in the field that are associated with Leipzig: Hermann Paul and Ferdinand de Saussure.
Converging Evidence
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Nov 10, 2011
1. Contributors 2. Preface 3. Introduction: On evidence and the convergence of evidence in lingui... more 1. Contributors 2. Preface 3. Introduction: On evidence and the convergence of evidence in linguistic research (by Schonefeld, Doris) 4. Issues in collecting converging evidence: Is metaphor always a matter of thought? (by Steen, Gerard J.) 5. Part 1. Multi-methodological approaches to constructional and idiomatic meaning 6. 1.1. Cognition verb constructions 7. Perception and conception: The 'see x to be y' construction from a cognitive perspective (by Egan, Thomas) 8. Explaining diverging evidence: The case of clause-initial I think (by Kaltenbock, Gunther) 9. 1.2. Constructional alternatives 10. I am about to die vs. I am going to die: A usage-based comparison between two future-indicating constructions (by Hoche, Silke) 11. Studying syntactic priming in corpora: Implications of different levels of granularity (by Gries, Stefan Th.) 12. Islands of (im)productivity in corpus data and acceptability judgments: Contrasting two potentiality constructions in Dutch (by Backus, Ad) 13. 1.3. Idioms and creative language use 14. Compositional and embodied meanings of somatisms: A corpus-based approach to phraseologisms (by Ziem, Alexander) 15. Word-formation patterns in a cross-linguistic perspective: Testing predictions for novel object naming in Hungarian and German (by Borgwaldt, Susanne R.) 16. Part 2. Multi-methodological approaches to language acquisition 17. The interaction of function and input frequency in L1-acquisition: The case of was...fur 'what kind of...' questions in German (by Steinkrauss, Rasmus) 18. Relative clause acquisition and representation: Evidence from spontaneous speech, sentence repetition, and comprehension (by Brandt, Silke) 19. Converging evidence in the typology of motion events: A corpus-based approach to interlanguage (by Reshoft, Nina) 20. Part 3. Multi-methodological approaches to the study of discourse 21. Differences in the use of emotion metaphors in expert-lay communication: Converging evidence from two complementary studies (by Beger, Anke) 22. Index
Investigations within Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and
related schools of thought in linguistics are increasingly required to be ‘usage-based’. As a res... more related schools of thought in linguistics are increasingly required to be ‘usage-based’. As a result, many researchers from these fields have turned
Die Eigennamen in der Struktur von englisch-, russisch- und deutschsprachigen Termini der Phytopathologie
Chapter Two Grounding and definitions
Where Lexicon and Syntax meet
Chapter Four Linguistic models under scrutiny
Where Lexicon and Syntax meet
Introduction: On evidence and the convergence of evidence in linguistic research
From conceptualization to linguistic expression: Where languages diversify
... of animals whose postures we (can) conceptualize as sufficiently close to the human posture o... more ... of animals whose postures we (can) conceptualize as sufficiently close to the human posture of sitting, with various aspects being extended: E dogs, cats, bird/ G Hund'dog', Vogel'bird', Panda'panda'/R kot'cat'sobaka ... 'fright sits in their bones'(='their knees are still like jelly') (15) R ...
Zero-derivation-functional change-metonymy * The article is about the character of what is common... more Zero-derivation-functional change-metonymy * The article is about the character of what is commonly known by zero-derivation. After an introduction to the phenomenon, more traditional approaches to its description are discussed and evaluated. In the remaining part, I show what Cognitive Linguistics can contribute to the understanding and explanation of the nature of this linguistic phenomenon.
Cognitive Linguistics, 2005
Much recent work in Cognitive Linguistics and neighbouring disciplines has adopted a so-called us... more Much recent work in Cognitive Linguistics and neighbouring disciplines has adopted a so-called usage-based perspective in which generalizations are based on the analysis of authentic usage data provided by computerized corpora. However, the analysis of such data does not always utilize methodological findings from other disciplines to avoid analytical pitfalls and, at the same time, generate robust results. A case in point is the strategy of using corpus frequencies. In this paper, we take up a recently much debated issue from construction grammar concerning the association between verbs and argument-structure constructions, and investigate a construction, the English as-predicative, in order to test the predictive power of di¤erent kinds of frequency data against that of a recent, more refined corpus-based approach, the so-called collexeme analysis. To that end, the results of the application of these corpus-based approaches to an analysis of the aspredicative are compared with the results of a sentence-completion experiment. Concerning the topic under consideration, collexeme analysis is not only shown to be superior on a variety of theoretical and methodological grounds, it also significantly outperforms frequency as a predictor of subjects' production preferences. We conclude by pointing out some implications for usage-based approaches.
Chapter Six In the psycholinguist's laboratory
1 Converging evidence II : More on the association of verbs and constructions
Investigations within Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and related schools of thought... more Investigations within Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, and related schools of thought in linguistics are increasingly required to be ‘usage-based’. As a result, many researchers from these fields have turned to samples of language produced in authentic contexts, i.e., corpora, or to experimentation, rather than basing their inquiries on constructed and isolated sentences. While this methodological shift has already resulted in a substantial increase of descriptive and explanatory reliability and validity, we believe that its full potential has not yet been utilized. More specifically, ‘usage-based’ approaches can in principle encompass both corpus-based and experimental perspectives, with each drawing on different kinds of data and yielding different kinds of results. Nevertheless, ‘usage-based’ has mainly been taken to mean ‘corpus-oriented’ and there are few studies in which an individual topic is tackled from more than one methodological perspective, producing what is...
Chapter Three Theories of language processing
Where Lexicon and Syntax meet
Introduction
Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 2011
Chapter Five Performance data
Where Lexicon and Syntax meet, 2001
Chapter Seven The finale
Where Lexicon and Syntax meet, 2001
Framing in American and British Governmental Discourse about Covid-19
Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited
Friending someone into submission: Verbal cues for understanding
Word Structure
This paper takes a usage-based, Construction Grammar perspective to consider how people interpret... more This paper takes a usage-based, Construction Grammar perspective to consider how people interpret linguistic utterances containing novel converted denominal verbs in the pattern NP + V + NP + PP. As a novel expression, such verbs are not (yet) conventional signs, and their meanings must be constructed from prompts in the usage event. Candidates of these are i) their base nouns, ii) the context, that is, the surrounding words and phrases and the situation, and iii) the syntactic arrangement of the material used. A quantitative analysis of usage data suggests that these constructions are part of a speaker's linguistic knowledge and can, hence, be taken as available for the identification of the general scene the novel verb will name. The data also reveal strong associations between verbs and prepositions.
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