RT Journal Article
T1 A sisterhood of constructions? A structural priming approach to modelling links in the network of Objoid Constructions
A1 Bouso, Tamara
A1 Hundt, Marianne
A1 Van Driessche, Laetitia
K1 Modelling network relations
K1 Reaction Objoid Construction
K1 Cognate Objoid Construction
K1 Superlative Objoid Construction
K1 Structural priming
AB A central aim of Construction Grammar is to model links within the construct-i-con. This paper investigates three constructions that share one property: an atypical element in the object slot. The constructions are therefore not prototypically transitive. Structural priming (implemented with an automatic maze variant of self-paced reading) is used to test hypotheses on the relation among the Reaction Objoid (She smiled her thanks), the Cognate Objoid (She smiled a sweet smile or He told a sly tale), and the Superlative Objoid (She smiled her sweetest) Construction, and between two variants of the latter (They worked (at) their hardest). Results support transitivity as gradient: intransitive COCs prime the ROC and the SOC, whereas COCs with transitives only prime the ROC. For variants of the SOC, we find evidence of asymmetric priming with the bare SOC priming the at-SOC. Within-construction priming effects in the SOC are of greater magnitude than those with the at-SOC and the latter are weaker than those of the COC and of a rather different nature than those from the ROC. This suggests that speakers, rather than creating a constructeme between the bare and the at-SOC, store distinct but closely related constructions on a cline of transitivity.
PB De Gruyter
SN 1613-3641
YR 2024
FD 2024-04-29
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33744
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33744
LA eng
NO Bouso, T., Hundt, M. & Van Driessche, L. (2024). A sisterhood of constructions? A structural priming approach to modelling links in the network of Objoid Constructions. Cognitive Linguistics
NO Nota: Material adicional no DOI secundario
NO Collaborative work on this paper was supported by the Swiss National Research Foundation (grant IZSEZ0_213179), the Universitat de les Illes Balears – Oficina de Suport a la Recerca (UIB-OSR) (grantnumber AAC33/2023), the Spanish State Research Agency (grant number PID2020-114604GB-I00), and the Consellería de Cultura, Educación, Formación Profesional e Universidades of the Regional Government of Galicia, Spain (grant number ED431B 2023/03).
DS Minerva
RD 30 abr 2026