Gradable nature of semantic compatibility and coercion: A usage-based approach
1
조회
0
다운로드
0
인용
0
참고문헌
키워드
초록
This study investigates the gradable nature of semantic compatibility between constructions and the lexical items that occur in them and also of the related concept of linguistic coercion, in relation to actual language use, on the basis of the usage-based model, proposed by Langacker (1987). The study shows that semantic compatibility between linguistic elements is a gradient phenomenon, and that speakers’ knowledge about the degree of semantic compatibility in a given case is closely correlated with language use, specifically language processing and frequency of usage. This study also shows that coercion, which is the resolution of semantic incompatibility between a construction and a lexical item occurring in it, is also a gradient phenomenon related to usage. To do so, this study investigates linguistic knowledge of semantic compatibility between the English sentential complement construction and various verbs that occur in it, and compares this semantic compatibility with empirical data obtained from acceptability judgments of various sentences, a corpus, and an experiment on sentence processing. My findings show that the more compatible a verb is with the construction, the faster their co-occurrence is processed and the more frequently it is used. On the basis of this correlation between gradable semantic compatibility and usage, this study suggests that the study of coercion be expanded to investigate its linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts and to determine what kind of interactions lead to a better or easier resolution of incompatibility, by incorporating empirical language use data.
Abstract
This study investigates the gradable nature of semantic compatibility between constructions and the lexical items that occur in them and also of the related concept of linguistic coercion, in relation to actual language use, on the basis of the usage-based model, proposed by Langacker (1987). The study shows that semantic compatibility between linguistic elements is a gradient phenomenon, and that speakers’ knowledge about the degree of semantic compatibility in a given case is closely correlated with language use, specifically language processing and frequency of usage. This study also shows that coercion, which is the resolution of semantic incompatibility between a construction and a lexical item occurring in it, is also a gradient phenomenon related to usage. To do so, this study investigates linguistic knowledge of semantic compatibility between the English sentential complement construction and various verbs that occur in it, and compares this semantic compatibility with empirical data obtained from acceptability judgments of various sentences, a corpus, and an experiment on sentence processing. My findings show that the more compatible a verb is with the construction, the faster their co-occurrence is processed and the more frequently it is used. On the basis of this correlation between gradable semantic compatibility and usage, this study suggests that the study of coercion be expanded to investigate its linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts and to determine what kind of interactions lead to a better or easier resolution of incompatibility, by incorporating empirical language use data.
참고문헌 (37)
- Barlow, Michael, "MonoConc Pro. Version 2.2", ~ (1996)
- Boas, Hans C, "Coercion and leaking argument structures in construction grammar", Linguistics, 49(6), pp.1271~1303 (2011)
- Broccias, Cristiano, "Do we need summary and sequential scanning in (cognitive) grammar?", Cognitive Linguistics, 18, pp.487~522 (2007)
- Cowart, Wayne, "Experimental syntax: Applying objective methods to sentence judgments" (1997), SAGE Publications
- Fillmore, Charles J, "An alternative to checklist theories of meaning", Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics, pp.123~131 (1975)
- Fellbaum, Christiane, "WordNet: An electronic lexical database" (1998), The MIT Press
- Fox Tree, Jean E, "Basic meanings of you know and I mean", Journal of Pragmatics, 34, pp.727~747 (2002)
- Givón, Talmy, "The binding hierarchy and the typology of complements", Studies in Language, 4, pp.333~377 (1980)
- Goldberg, Adele E, "Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure" (1995), University of Chicago Press
- Goldberg, Adele E, "Constructions at work: The nature of generalization in language" (2006), Oxford University Press
- Gries, Stefan Th, "Coll.analysis 3.5. A script for R to compute perform collostructional analyses", ~ (2014)
- Gries, Stefan Th, "Converging evidence:Bringing together experimental and corpus data on the association of verbs and constructions", Cognitive Linguistics, 16, pp.635~676 (2005)
- functional research, "Empirical and experimental methods in cognitive", pp.2010, Gries, Stefan Th
- Hare, Mary, "Sense and structure: Meaning as a determinant of verb subcategorization preference", Journal of Memory and Language, 48, pp.281~303 (2003)
- Kemmer, Suzanne, "New dimensions of dimensions: Frequency, productivity, domains and coercion", Paper presented at the meeting of Cognitive Linguistics between Universality and Variation (2008)
- Kemmer, Suzanne, "Usage-based models of grammar, i-xxi" (2000), CSLI Publications
- Kemmer, Suzanne, "The grammar of causatives and the conceptual structure of events", Cognitive Linguistics, 5, pp.115~156 (1994)
- Lakoff, George, "Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind" (1987), The University of Chicago Press
- Lakoff, George, "Metaphors we live by" (1980), University of Chicago Press
- Langacker, Ronald W, "Foundations of cognitive grammar: Volume 2" (1987), Stanford University Press
- Langacker, Ronald W, "Topics in cognitive linguistics", pp.127~161 (1988), Benjamins
- Michaelis, Laura A, "Mismatch: Form-function incongruity and the architecture of grammar", pp.259~310 (2003), CSLI Publications
- Michaelis, Laura A, "Construction grammars: Cognitive grounding and theoretical extensions", pp.45~88 (2005), John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Pedersen, Ted, "WordNet::Similarity -Measuring the relatedness of concepts", Proceedings of Fifth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-04), pp.38~41 (2004)
- Piñango, Maria Mercedes, "Time-course of semantic composition: The case of aspectual coercion", Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 35, pp.233~244 (2006)
- Pinker, Steven, "Learnability and cognition: The acquisition of argument structure" (1989), The MIT Press
- Pustejovsky, James, "Type coercion and selection", Paper presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (1989)
- Pustejovsky, James, "Computational lexical semantics", pp.71~97 (1995), Cambridge University Press
- Pylikkänen, Liina, "The Anterior midline field: Coercion or decision making?", Brain and Language, 108, pp.184~190 (2009)
- Schütze, Carson T, "The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology" (1996), University of Chicago Press
- Seidenberg, Mark S, "A probabilistic constraints approach to language acquisition and processing", Cognitive Science, 23, pp.569~588 (1999)
- Sinclair, John, "Collins COBUILD English dictionary for advanced learners" (2001), Harper Collins Publishers
- Stefanowitsch, Anatol, "Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and constructions", International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 8, pp.209~243 (2003)
- Thompson, Sandra A, "The discourse conditions for the use of the complementizer that in conversational English", Journal of Pragmatics, 15, pp.237~251 (1991)
- Todorova, Marina, "Aspectual coercion and the online computation of sentential aspect", Proceedings of the twenty-second annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pp.3~8 (2000), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
- Traxler, Matthew J, "Context effects in coercion: Evidence from eye movements", Journal of Memory and Language, 53, pp.1~25 (2005)
- 윤소연, "Correlation between semantic compatibility and frequency: A usage-based approach", 언어연구, 30(2), pp.243~272 (2013), 언어정보연구소