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Can You XConstruction

-- DanielWiechmann -- 04 Feb 2008

Can You XConstruction

1. General

1.1. Label

Can you X Construction

1.2. Reasons for construction status

COMING UP

1.3. Examples 

English:

(i) Can you close the window?

2. Language Information

2.1. Comments

no special variety.

2.2. Language

English

2.3. Variety

2.3.1. Regional

seems to be possible without regional restrictions

2.3.2. Social

no social variation for the general pattern

2.3.3. Register

no variation according to situation for the general pattern

2.3.4. Speech Community

no information

2.3.5. Genre

no particular genre

2.3.6. Style

Can/Could COMING UP

2.3.7. Language Contact

no information

2.4. Time Period

no information

2.5. Stage of Acquisition

no information

3. Form

3.1. Syntax

3.1.1. Comments

COMING UP

3.1.2. Internal

3.1.2.1. Valency

COMING UP

3.1.2.2. Constituency

COMING UP

3.1.3. External

3.1.3.1. Category

(category label)

3.1.3.2. Structural Position

COMING UP

3.2. Morphology

3.2.1. Comments

COMING UP

3.2.2. Internal

3.2.2.1. Morphological Properties of Elements

COMING UP

3.2.3. External

3.2.3.1. Morphological Properties of Construction

COMING UP

4. Meaning

4.1. Semantics

4.1.1. Comments

COMING UP

4.1.2. Internal

4.1.2.1. Frame

(frame evoked)
4.1.2.1.1. Event

(event type)
4.1.2.1.2. Participants

(description of the participants, e.g. as 'selection restrictions')

4.1.2.2. Truth-Conditional Stuff

(information on the truthconditional properties of the construction)
4.1.2.2.1. Negation

(peculiar behaviours with respect to negation)
4.1.2.2.2. Scope

(description of the scope of the construction)

4.1.3. External

4.1.3.1. Semantic Class

(semantic category)

4.1.3.2. Relation to Construction-External Semantic Elements

  • type: textarea
    (description of semantic relations outside of the construction)

4.1.3.3. Truth Relations

  • type: text
    (information on the truthconditional relationships of the construction)
4.1.3.3.1. Semantic Presuppositions

(semantic presupposition)
4.1.3.3.2. Semantic Entailments

(semantic entailments)

4.2. Pragmatics

4.2.1. Comments

(general pragmatic behaviour)

4.2.2. Internal

(internal pragmatic properties)

4.2.3. External

4.2.3.1. Indexical Properties

4.2.3.1.1. Deixis
  • type: text
    (linguistic and extralinguistic domains indexed)
4.2.3.1.2. Intertextuality
  • type: text
    (intertextual links evoked)

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

  • type: text
    (Politeness, Other-Self, etc.)

4.2.3.3. Speaker attitude

(modality, epistemic, emotion)

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

  • type: text
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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

  • type: text
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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

both corpus and 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

  • type: text
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4.5.2.5. Sampling

  • type: text
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4.5.2.6. Search string

  • type: text
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4.5.2.7. Sample rate

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4.5.2.8. Number of retrieved hits

  • type: text
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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

COMING UP

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

  • type: text
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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

Daniel Wiechmann (should be filled in automatically)

6.2. Date

(date of last editing) should be filled in automatically

 
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