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Constructions

Construction Grammar meets Typology: From Theory to Teaching

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Coordinator	KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Organization address address: NORREGADE 10 city: KOBENHAVN postcode: 1165 website: www.ku.dk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Denmark [DK]
Project website	https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wojciech_Lewandowski4
Total cost	200˙194 €
EC max contribution	200˙194 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2014
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-EF-ST
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-09-01 to 2018-08-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Organization address address: NORREGADE 10 city: KOBENHAVN postcode: 1165 website: www.ku.dk contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	DK (KOBENHAVN)	coordinator	200˙194.00

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Project objective

The world’s languages differ in how they conceptualize events central to the human experience, such as motion and change of state, by means of constructions. This project investigates the expression of these meanings in four major European languages, English, German, Polish and Spanish. The aim is (i) to identify, through a fine-grained study of corpus data, the language-internal factors (semantic, morpho-syntactic, etc.) underlying cross-linguistic variation, including differences that can be observed in languages considered to be typologically related and (ii) to implement the findings in foreign language acquisition by developing a comprehensive pedagogical grammar of constructions. Consistently, this proposal involves three main phases. The first one consists of data collection and description. The second one is dedicated to data interpretation in the light of the theories concerned with verbal constructions and typological variation, namely Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995) and Talmy’s (2000) typology of macro-events. In particular, it will be claimed that the typology of languages, as proposed by Talmy (2000), is in fact an epiphenomenon of a typology of constructions whose distribution in the world’s languages is constrained, among others, by the availability of grammatical devices, such as verb prefixes, verb particles, prepositions, etc. The third phase proceeds with translating the theoretical results into a user-friendly multi-lingual grammar of constructions, which permits to elucidate certain high-level morpho-syntactic generalizations, invisible in the prevailing verb-centred teaching materials. Therefore, the findings of this investigation would be an innovative contribution both to the theoretical debate on linguistic diversity and to the cross-linguistic communication in a broad sense, which seems to be especially relevant in the modern world characterized by close relationships between languages and cultures.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2018	Wojciech Lewandowski Exploring vagueness: Preposition alternation in Spanish published pages: , ISSN: 0388-0001, DOI:	Language Sciences	2019-05-29
2019	Wojciech Lewandowski A semantic approach to auxiliary selection with German verbs of motion: An empirical study published pages: , ISSN: 1695-6885, DOI:	Catalan Journal of Linguistics	2019-05-29
2018	Wojciech Lewandowski and Åžeyda Ã–zÃ§alÄ±ÅŸkan How event perspective influences speech and co-speech gestures about motion published pages: , ISSN: 0378-2166, DOI:	Journal of Pragmatics	2019-05-29

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