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Construction Learning as a Complex Adaptive System: Psycholinguistic Evidence from L2 Learners of English
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Construction Learning as a Complex Adaptive System: Psycholinguistic Evidence from L2 Learners of English

This book presents the current state of the art on Construction Grammar models and usage-based language learning research. It reports on three psycholinguistic experiments conducted with the participation of university-level Italian learners of English, whose second language proficiency corresponds to levels B1 and B2 of the ‘Common European Framework of Reference for Languages’ (CEFR). This empirical research on the role of constructions in the facilitation of language learning contributes to assessing how bilinguals deal with L2 constructions in the light of sentence-sorting, sentence-elicitation, and sentence-completion tasks.
 
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Tags: language, learning, research, constructions, English
Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics: The role of constructions in grammar
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Linking Constructions into Functional Linguistics: The role of constructions in grammar

There is a growing awareness of the significance of constructions in grammar in the world’s languages. To date there has not been a single volume that addresses the issues of constructions within a functional Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) account. The book is a collection of articles that will serve the scholarly community as a reference work on the role, place and significance of constructions within this functional model of grammar. As a result, this volume represents the first instance of cross-linguistic comparison of these important discourse and syntax-related phenomena.
 
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Tags: constructions, grammar, functional, within, significance
The Positions of Adjectives in English
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The Positions of Adjectives in English

This book explores the uses of adjectives in different constructions, and of the problems that arise in their analysis, both in terms of syntactic theory and philosophy of grammar. Professor Matthews also examines a variety of other issues relating to individual adjective positions, including the basic structure of noun phrases and the justification for binary constituents; the status of the copular and its uses in the progressive; the indeterminacy of what were once described as raised constructions; and the function of postmodifying adjectives and adjective phrases in relation to others.

 
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Tags: phrases, constructions, adjective, adjectives, status
At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World
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At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World

This pioneering volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home,' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood, masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature, sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing.
 
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Tags: empire, constructions, womanhood, masculinity, influence
Middle English Verbs of Emotion and Impersonal Constructions: Verb Meaning and Syntax in Diachrony
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Middle English Verbs of Emotion and Impersonal Constructions: Verb Meaning and Syntax in Diachrony

Impersonal constructions in the history of English form a puzzling category, in that there has been uncertainty as to why some verbs are attested in such constructions while others are not, even though they look almost synonymous. In this book, Ayumi Miura tackles this under-discussed question with special reference to verbs of emotion in Middle English.
 
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Tags: English, Middle, Impersonal, verbs, constructions