Regular and Irregular Aspects of Grammatical Constructions

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Regular and Irregular Aspects of Grammatical Constructions

Original language description

This study focuses on two grammatical forms, the Incredulity Response Construction and the je vidět / vidieťconstruction. By analyzing their form and usage, I intend to weigh in on the debate concerning the importance of regularity and unpredictability inherent in grammatical constructions. The debate,initiated by Chomsky’s dismissal of idiosyncratic forms as peripheral, has gained momentum especially in recent years, with cognitive linguists uncovering more unpredictable aspects of language forms and claiming that language is primarily idiosyncratic, not regular. As a result, current cognitive linguistic descriptions of constructions highlight what is unpredictable and all but dismiss the regular aspectsof constructions. The present study argues that the two sides—the predictable and the form-specific—coexistand thus have obvious implicationsfor models of mental representations of language forms. By extrapolation, a recognition of a balance of the regular and irregular properties is relevant to our theorizing on how speakers learn and use constructions: just as the presence of idiosyncratic properties makes it necessary to memorize special cases of forms, the presence of regular properties can be assumed to ease the learning burden. An accurate description of anyconstruction should attempt to detail both those aspects that can be predicted by rule and those that are endemic to a given construction and must be memorized.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics

ISSN

1336-782X

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Volume of the periodical

2018

Issue of the periodical within the volume

15/3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

170-182

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85072378325