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Complement and parenthetical constructions: Theory and description
Vandelanotte, Lieven; Van Linden, An; Brems, Lieselotte
2023In Language Sciences
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Keywords :
complementation; parenthetical; frameworks
Abstract :
[en] This special issue brings together the papers presented at the successful 2019 workshop “The syntagmatic properties of complementation patterns: Accommodating lexical and grammatical uses of CTP-clauses” (https://ctp-clauses.sciencesconf.org). It focuses on complement-taking predicate clauses (CTP-clauses) occurring in complement constructions that allow for functional variation – i.e. showing both complementizing/lexical uses and modifying/grammatical uses (cf. Boye & Harder 2007) – as well as in parenthetical constructions (e.g. It is a good idea, I think). While traditionally complement clauses have been analysed as constituents of the main clause headed by the CTP (e.g. Noonan 1985: 42), usage-based approaches – drawing on conversational data – proposed an alternative analysis, viewing the complement clauses as central and the CTP-clauses as “epistemic/evidential/evaluative fragments” (Thompson 2002: 136–141). Recently Boye & Harder’s (2007, 2012) functional approach to CTP-clauses has attempted to strike a balance between the traditional and the usage-based approaches, arguing for a distinction between the levels of usage and structure, and proposing tests to attribute instances showing the same structure to three different types of use, i.e. discourse-primary lexical uses, discourse-secondary lexical uses, and grammatical uses (invariably discourse-secondary). The papers in this issue present various functionalist approaches to the topic of CTP-clauses, with a good mix of theoretical concerns and empirical case studies. After an introduction by the guest editors, the issue proper moves from more general and typological papers, over more theoretically-oriented papers to diachronic corpus studies of English.
Research center :
UR Lilith
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Editor :
Vandelanotte, Lieven
Van Linden, An  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction > Linguistique synchronique anglaise ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Lilith - Liège, Literature, Linguistics
Brems, Lieselotte  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction > Langue anglaise & Linguistiques synchronique et diachronique de l'anglais ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Lilith - Liège, Literature, Linguistics
Language :
English
Title :
Complement and parenthetical constructions: Theory and description
Publication date :
18 April 2023
Journal title :
Language Sciences
ISSN :
0388-0001
eISSN :
1873-5746
Publisher :
Elsevier, United Kingdom
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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