TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Ruppenhofer, Josef
A1  - Michaelis, Laura A.
T1  - A constructional account of genre-based argument omissions
JF  - Constructions and Frames
N2  - Authors like Fillmore 1986 and Goldberg 2006 have made a strong case for regarding argument omission in English as a lexical and construction-based affordance rather than one based on general semantico-pragmatic constraints. They do not, however, address the question of how grammatical restrictions on null complementation might interact with broader narrative conventions, in particular those of genre. In this paper, we attempt to remedy this oversight by presenting a comprehensive overview of genre-based argument omissions and offering a construction-based analysis of genre-based omission conventions. We consider five genre-based omission types: instructional imperatives (Culy 1996, Bender 1999), labelese, diary style (Haegeman 1990), match reports (Ruppenhofer 2004) and quotative clauses. We show that these omission types share important traits; all, for example, have anaphoric rather than indefinite construals. We also show, however, that the omission types differ from each other in idiosyncratic ways. We then address several interrelated representational problems posed by the grammatical treatment of genre-based omissions. For example, the constructions that represent genre-based omission conventions must interact with the lexical entries of verbs, many of which do not generally permit omitted arguments. Accordingly, we offer constructional analyses of genre-based omissions that allow constructions to override lexical valence constraints.
KW  - diary omission
KW  - argument structure
KW  - null complementation
KW  - instructional imteratives
KW  - Sign-Based Construction Grammar
KW  - Argumentstruktur
KW  - Automatische Sprachanalyse
KW  - Konstruktionsgrammatik
KW  - derivation
Y1  - 2010
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-49765
SN  - 1876-1941
SS  - 1876-1941
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.2.2.02rup
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.2.2.02rup
N1  - The published article is under copyright of Benjamins. The publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form.
VL  - 2010
IS  - 2
SP  - 158
EP  - 184
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Company
ER  -