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Spectacle and sensationalism in Construction Grammar
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| This paper concerns a think-piece on Kay & Fillmore (1999), “Grammatical constructions and linguistic generalizations: The What’s X doing Y?construction”. I argue that claims about non-compositional constructional meaning (i.e., the idiomatic meaning of incongruity ascribed to WXDY as a whole) should not be made too quickly. I also argue for a reappraisal of schematic representations of sub-constructional elements, specifically at the level of grammatical meaning. In particular, I submit that the meaning of incongruity is at least partially motivated by a similar set of meanings associated with the English present progressive, which is a necessary constituent of WXDY. |
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English
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Constructions
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2023
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1860-2010
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10.24338/CONS-536
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15
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(2023)
, p. 1-11
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