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<strong>Syntactic</strong> productivity 16 1. The language user’s ability to generate and understand sentences never encountered before. 2. The ability of a syntactic pattern or argument structure construction to be extended to new lexical verbs. 1. = Regularity Concept 2. = Extensibility Concept <strong>Productivity</strong> is a matter of how available a pattern is for the sanction of novel expressions (Langacker 2000: 26 [emphasis added]). Bergen Jóhanna Barðdal June 5, 2008
“Two kinds of ‘creativity’” 17 We can distinguish two kinds of “creativity” in language. In one case there is the ability of speakers, using existing resources in the language, to produce and understand novel expressions. In the other case, the one for which we use the term coining, a speaker uses existing patterns in the language for creating new resources (Fillmore 2002). Bergen Jóhanna Barðdal June 5, 2008
Page 1 and 2: Syntactic Productivity: Extending A
Page 3 and 4: Overview 3 • Productivity • New
Page 5 and 6: Senses and Synonyms of “productiv
Page 7 and 8: Examples of Different Usages (2) 7
Page 9 and 10: Tomasello’s (2000) Usage 9 • Pr
Page 11 and 12: Making Sense of Different Senses of
Page 13 and 14: Measurements of productivity (1) 13
Page 15: Predicting productivity 15 8) The t
Page 19 and 20: Types, tokens and patterns in morph
Page 21 and 22: Definition of syntactic productivit
Page 23 and 24: The inverse correlation between typ
Page 25 and 26: The productivity cline 25 Bergen J
Page 27 and 28: High type frequency vs. open schema
Page 29 and 30: Degrees of productivity 29 • Assu
Page 31 and 32: Modified version of C&C’s gradien
Page 33 and 34: strung vs. swept verbs 33 • It is
Page 35 and 36: Token frequency’s contribution to
Page 37 and 38: The inverse correlation between typ
Page 39 and 40: Summary (2) 39 • There two notion
Page 41 and 42: Case study 1: New verbs in Icelandi
Page 43 and 44: Type frequencies 43 • Nominative
Page 45 and 46: Corpus count 45 • Modern Icelandi
Page 47 and 48: Nom-Acc construction 47 • Basic e
Page 49 and 50: Nom-Dat construction 49 • Basic e
Page 51 and 52: Animate vs. inanimate reference of
Page 53 and 54: Nom-Gen 53 Bergen Jóhanna Barðdal
Page 55 and 56: Recent borrowings in Icelandic (1)
Page 57 and 58: Recent borrowings in Icelandic (3)
Page 59 and 60: Productivity is associated with rul
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Page 63 and 64: The productivity of Nom-Acc and Nom
Page 65 and 66: Low-level verb-class generalization
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The productivity of Nom-Acc and Nom
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Two sides of the same coin 69 • O
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Choice of model items for analogica
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Inverse correlation between type an
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Summary 75 • This case assignment
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Five Screen Beans silhouettes 77 Be
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Lexical and semantic priming 79 Ber
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Statistics 81 The differences betwe
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Results (2) 83 • This suggests th
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Bergen Jóhanna Barðdal June 5, 20
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Generative vs. usage-based construc
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Case study 3: New Verbs of instrume
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Why Icelandic? 91 • 86% of the Ic
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Constructional Choices 93 (4) … f
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The Questionnaire 95 • Ég (e)mei
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Question 101 • Why is the Caused-
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Proportion of motion verbs among No
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Conclusion: Analogy vs. High type f
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Summary 109 • All three new verbs
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