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The Hebrew dative: Usage patterns as discourse profile constructions

Linguistics, 2019-09, Vol.57 (5), p.1073-1110 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Walter de Gruyter GmbH Sep 2019 ;ISSN: 0024-3949 ;EISSN: 1613-396X ;DOI: 10.1515/ling-2019-0022

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  • Title:
    The Hebrew dative: Usage patterns as discourse profile constructions
  • Author: Dattner, Elitzur
  • Subjects: Argument structure ; argument structure constructions ; Concept formation ; Construction grammar ; Corpus analysis ; dative ; discourse profile construction ; Grammatical case ; Hebrew ; Hebrew language ; Language usage ; multivariate statistics ; Syntactic structures ; usage-based linguistics ; Use statistics
  • Is Part Of: Linguistics, 2019-09, Vol.57 (5), p.1073-1110
  • Description: The dative in Hebrew poses a problem for a unified characterization as no single criterion seems to guides its interpretation. The present paper approaches this problem from a usage-based perspective, suggesting a multifactorial account of dative functions in Hebrew. Analyzing a corpus of Hebrew dative clauses with multivariate statistical tools I reveal the usage patterns associated with each dative function, showing that traditional descriptions of dative functions are not reflected in usage. Working within a Usage-Based perspective, in which the meaning of a word is its use in language, I argue that Hebrew has only four distinct dative usage patterns, termed : conventional correspondences between a multifactorial usage pattern and a unified conceptualization of the world. The four Discourse Profile Constructions are: (i) the Extended Transitive Discourse Profile Construction, (ii) the Human Endpoint Discourse Profile Construction, (iii) the Extended Intransitive Discourse Profile Construction, and (iv), the Evaluative Reference point Discourse Profile Construction. By revealing such correspondences between usage patterns and conceptualizations, the present paper (i) broadens the Construction Grammar notion of Argument Structure Construction, and (ii), suggests an innovative account for the notion of usage as a factor in the conventional pairing between form and function.
  • Publisher: Berlin: De Gruyter
  • Language: English;French;German
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0024-3949
    EISSN: 1613-396X
    DOI: 10.1515/ling-2019-0022
  • Source: Walter De Gruyter: Open Access Journals
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