Surface generalizations: An alternative to alternations

By Adele E. Goldberg. 2002

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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The roles of verb semantics, entrenchment, and morphophonology in the retreat from dative argument-structure overgeneralization errors (2012, background): “…to [INDIRECT OBJECT] John gave a present to Sue ⇓ (2) DO-dative: [SUBJECT] [VERB] [INDIRECT OBJECT] [DIRECT OBJECT] John gave Sue a present Another possibility is that children learn the two constructions as independent ‘surface generalizations’ (Goldberg 2002) that are functionally very similar.”
Particle placement and the case for "allostructions" (2006, unknown): “Quite similarly, with regard to the well-known spray / load (or “locative”) alternation, Goldberg (2002) has argued that we should go beyond treating the locative pattern (e.g., spray the wall with paint , load the wagon with hay ) as merely a transformation of the caused-motion pattern (e.g.,…”
Argument Structure in Usage-Based Construction Grammar: Experimental and corpus-based perspectives (2015, background): “In construction grammar, the variants of an alternation are seen as independent constructions with their own properties (cf. Michaelis & Ruppenhofer, 2001; Goldberg, 2002), but the relation between them is usually not considered part of the grammar.”
Corpus evidence of the viability of statistical preemption (2011, background): “But traditional alternations such as the dative-ditransitive need not take on an outsized role in our theorizing (Goldberg 2002).”
Extending collostructional analysis: A corpus-based perspective on `alternations' (2004, background): “In these approaches, each member of an apparent ‘alternation’ is a construction in its own right (Langacker 1991: Section 11.1 and Goldberg 2002); they appear to ‘alternate’ only because they are in a partial paraphrase relationship when used with certain lexical items (see esp.”