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Beyond the Lemma: Inflection-Specific Constructions in English

This paper explores the idiosyncrasies of meaning, form, collocation, genre, and distribution in inflection-specific constructions in English. It examines various inflectional properties of verbs and pronouns, including syntactic and semantic features. The analysis is based on corpus linguistic methodologies and presents insights into language-specific and construction-specific inflectional patterns.

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Beyond the Lemma: Inflection-Specific Constructions in English

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  1. Beyond the Lemma:Inflection-Specific Constructions in English Sally Rice and John Newman University of Alberta AACL 2008 BYU 14 March 2008

  2. Bertrand Russell’s Emotive Conjugations I’mtenacious you’restubborn he’spigheaded singular 1 2 3

  3. inflection-specific meaning and behavior (idiosyncracies of meaning, form, collocation, genre, and distribution)

  4. Form Idiosyncracies in a TypicalAthapaskan Verb Paradigm

  5. Form Idiosyncracies in a TypicalAthapaskan Verb Paradigm

  6. Form Idiosyncracies in another TypicalAthapaskan Verb Paradigm

  7. TAM-Based Idiosyncracies of some Basic Verbs Rice & Newman 2005

  8. SUBJ x TAM Idiosyncracies in BNCallRice & Newman 2005 GO

  9. SUBJ x TAM Idiosyncracies in BNCallRice & Newman 2005 GO

  10. SUBJ x TAM Idiosyncracies in BNCallRice & Newman 2005 GO

  11. SUBJ x TAM Idiosyncracies in BNCCCRice & Newman 2005 THINK

  12. SUBJ x TAM Idiosyncracies in BNCCCRice & Newman 2005 THINK

  13. SUBJ x TAM Idiosyncracies in BNCCCRice & Newman 2005 THINK

  14. VVB-base VVZ-3sg.pres VVI-inf VVD-past VVG-prog VVN-perf part rid allow

  15. VVB-base VVZ-3sg.pres VVI-inf VVD-past VVG-prog VVN-perf part rid allow

  16. Inflectional idiosyncracies of EAT and DRINKNewman & Rice 2003

  17. Distributional idiosyncracies of A, Aer, AestNewman & Rice 2006

  18. Distributional idiosyncracies of A, Aer, AestNewman & Rice 2006

  19. Distributional idiosyncracies of A, Aer, AestNewman & Rice 2006

  20. Collocational idiosyncracies of A, Aer, AestNewman & Rice 2006

  21. Collocational idiosyncracies of A, Aer, AestNewman & Rice 2006

  22. Collocational idiosyncracies of A, Aer, AestNewman & Rice 2006

  23. Really idiosyncratic gradable As

  24. Really idiosyncratic gradable As

  25. inflection-specific meaning and behavior (idiosyncracies of meaning, form, collocation, genre, and distribution)  Commitment to usage-based approaches like CG, RCG language-specific construction-specific inflection-specific Application of corpus linguistic methodologies and mindset

  26. Inflectional Islands Syntactic (constructional), semantic, and collocational properties tend to inhere in individual inflections of a lexical item in a register-specific manner. These properties may not extend across all the inflections (the paradigm) to characterize the lemma as a whole.

  27. English Pronominal Inflection searched BNC and CAE with Mark Davies’ corpus tool: Variation in English Words and Phrases: http://view.byu.edu tracked person & case distribution/skew for pronouns examined frequencies and collocations

  28. English Pronominal Inflection NOM ACC/ POSS IND REFLEX OBL DET POSS 1SGI me my mine myself 2 you you your yours yourself/ves 3SG.M he him his his himself 3SG.F she her her hers herself 3SG.N it it its its itself 1PL we us our ours ourself/ves 3PL they them their theirs themself/ves

  29. English Pronominal Inflection NOM ACC/ POSS IND REFLEX OBL DET POSS 1SGI me my mine myself 2 you you your yours yourself/ves 3SG.M he him his his himself 3SG.F she her her hers herself 3SG.N it it its its itself 1PL we us our ours ourself/ves 3PL they them their theirs themself/ves

  30. English Pronominal Inflection NOM ACC/ POSS IND REFLEX OBL DET POSS 1SGI me my mine myself 2 you you your yours yourself/ves 3SG.M he him his his himself 3SG.F she her her hers herself 3SG.N it it its its itself 1PL we us our ours ourself/ves 3PL they them their theirs themself/ves

  31. Top 20 Collocates for Pro + V (=NOM)

  32. Top 20 Collocates for Pro + V (=NOM)

  33. Percent Attraction of Pro to Pro + CAN Frame Attraction of “he” = (no. of “he+CAN” in construction over total no. of “he” in corpus) x100, following Schmid 2000)

  34. Percent Attraction of Pro to Pro + WILL Frame Attraction of “he” = (no. of “he+WILL” in construction over total no. of “he” in corpus) x100, following Schmid 2000)

  35. Collostructional Analysis of 3SG + CAN/WILL Collostructional analysis based on attraction/repulsion of “she/he/it” to the construction “Pro + CAN” or “Pro + WILL” [size of corpus = number of verbs (V*)]; Stefanowitsch & Gries 2003

  36. PRO like to vs. PRO hope to (BNC-cc) you like to I hope to

  37. PRO like to vs. PRO hope to (BNC-cc) you like to I hope to

  38. English Pronominal Inflection NOM ACC/ POSS IND REFLEX OBL DET POSS 1SGI me my mine myself 2 you you your yours yourself/ves 3SG.M he him his his himself 3SG.F she her her hers herself 3SG.N it it its its itself 1PL we us our ours ourself/ves 3PL they them their theirs themself/ves

  39. Top 20 Collocates for V + Pro (=ACC?)

  40. Top 20 Collocates for V + Pro (=ACC?)

  41. Top 20 Collocates for V + Pro (=ACC?)

  42. Top 20 Collocates for V + Pro (=ACC?)

  43. Top 10 Collocates for P + Pro (=OBL)

  44. Top 10 Collocates for P + Pro (=OBL)

  45. Distributional Idiosyncracies (CAEall+ BNCall) prep + PRO Reliance of “to+me” (= no. of “to+me” in corpus over total no. of PREP+PRO in corpus) x100, following Schmid 2000)

  46. English Pronominal Inflection NOM ACC/ POSS IND REFLEX OBL DET POSS 1SGI me my mine myself 2 you you your yours yourself/ves 3SG.M he him his his himself 3SG.F she her her hers herself 3SG.N it it its its itself 1PL we us our ours ourself/ves 3PL they them their theirs themself/ves

  47. Top 20 Collocates for Pro’s NP (=GEN)

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