Can You XConstruction

-- DanielWiechmann -- 04 Feb 2008

Can You XConstruction

1. General

1.1. Label

1.2. Reasons for construction status

1.3. Examples

English:

(i) Can you close the window?

2. Language Information

2.1. Comments

2.2. Language

2.3. Variety

2.3.1. Regional

2.3.2. Social

2.3.3. Register

2.3.4. Speech Community

2.3.5. Genre

2.3.6. Style

2.3.7. Language Contact

2.4. Time Period

2.5. Stage of Acquisition

3. Form

3.1. Syntax

3.1.1. Comments

3.1.2. Internal

3.1.2.1. Valency

3.1.2.2. Constituency

3.1.3. External

3.1.3.1. Category

3.1.3.2. Structural Position

3.2. Morphology

3.2.1. Comments

3.2.2. Internal

3.2.2.1. Morphological Properties of Elements

3.2.3. External

3.2.3.1. Morphological Properties of Construction

4. Meaning

4.1. Semantics

4.1.1. Comments

4.1.2. Internal

4.1.2.1. Frame

4.1.2.1.1. Event

4.1.2.1.2. Participants

4.1.2.2. Truth-Conditional Stuff

4.1.2.2.1. Negation

4.1.2.2.2. Scope

4.1.3. External

4.1.3.1. Semantic Class

4.1.3.2. Relation to Construction-External Semantic Elements

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4.1.3.3. Truth Relations

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4.1.3.3.1. Semantic Presuppositions

4.1.3.3.2. Semantic Entailments

4.2. Pragmatics

4.2.1. Comments

4.2.2. Internal

4.2.3. External

4.2.3.1. Indexical Properties

4.2.3.1.1. Deixis

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4.2.3.1.2. Intertextuality

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  (intertextual links evoked)

4.2.3.2. Interpersonal Function (Politeness, Other-Self, etc.)

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  (Politeness, Other-Self, etc.)

4.2.3.3. Speaker attitude

4.2.3.4. Speech Act Force

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4.2.3.5. Rhetorical Function

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4.2.3.6. Style

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4.2.3.7. Pragmatic Presuppositions / Implicature

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4.3. Discourse Properties

4.3.1. Internal

4.3.1.1. Turn Constructional Status

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4.3.1.2. Within-Turn Position

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4.3.2.External

4.3.2.1. Sequential Context

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4.3.2.2. Position in Text- and Dialogue-Structure

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4.3.2.3. Sequence Type

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4.4. Information Structure

4.4.1. Intern

4.4.1.1. Topic - Comment

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4.4.1.2. Focus

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4.4.2. Extern

4.4.2.1. Signaled Information Status (Given - New - Brandnew - etc.)

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4.4.2.2. Information Status Requirements

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4.5. Data

4.5.1. Introspection

4.5.2. Authentic data

4.5.2.1. Source data properties:

http://www.taz.de

4.5.2.2. Quantitative specifications

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4.5.2.3. Source material size/length

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4.5.2.4. Number of considered tokens

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4.5.2.5. Sampling

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4.5.2.6. Search string

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4.5.2.7. Sample rate

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4.5.2.8. Number of retrieved hits

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4.5.2.9. Cleaning procedures

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4.6. Literature

Stefanowitsch, Anatol. (2003). A construction-based approach to indirect speech acts. In Klaus-Uwe Panther and Linda Thornburg (eds), Metonymy and Pragmatic Inferencing, 105-126. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins

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5. Relations to other constructions

5.1. Subtypes

5.1.1. Diachronic

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5.1.2. Synchronic

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5.2. Supertypes

5.2.1. Diachronic

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5.2.2. Synchronic

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5.3. Paradigmatic Relations

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6. Description

6.1. Author

6.2. Date