An Integrated Model of Coercion and Inheritance: Interaction between Construction and Its Components——A Corpus Analysis of the Redundant Negation Construction “haobu X”

doi:10.11885/j.issn.1674-5094.2018.09.07.01

Abstract

Abstract: The interactive relation between construction and its constructional components has been a key issue in the field of construction grammar. Goldberg proposed "mutual interaction between the verb and construction" to explain the fusion;yet in the practice of construction realization, construction grammar overemphasized the coercion of construction over the verb but minimized the contribution of verb meaning to the construction,and neglected the systemic study of cognitive meaning of constructional components. Based on the perspective of interaction between construction and its components, the paper proposes that the emergence of schematic construction results from an integrated mechanism by interaction of coercion and inheritance and then analyzes the constructional properties of redundant negation construction "haobu X" (好不 X) in Chinese within the self-built closed corpus so as to prove the mechanism's explanation. The research findings are as follows:(1) construction coercion and lexical coercion is bi-directionally interactive; (2) the constructional characteristics dynamically inherit from the multi-inheritance model; (3) the emergence of schematic construction is from the "interactive-coercion-inheritance model".

Key words: interaction, coercion, inheritance, integrated mechanism, redundant negation construction, “haobu X”

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TANG Jing. An Integrated Model of Coercion and Inheritance: Interaction between Construction and Its Components——A Corpus Analysis of the Redundant Negation Construction “haobu X”[J]. 西南石油大学学报(社会科学版), 2019, 21(1): 106-114.

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