Zum Konstruktionsgrammatischen Status Der Mehrworteinheit "Wie Auch Immer". Eine Korpusbasierte Empirische Beschreibung
On the construction grammatical status of the multi-word unit "Anyway". A corpus-based empirical description

Summary/Abstract: The Construction Grammar, as a relatively new direction in linguistics, claims to take account of all linguistic phenomena as far as possible. The linguistic phenomenon dealt with in this article belongs to so-called "multi-word units" and as such is primarily the object of phraseological research. In this article the author tries to treat such units using the example of the multi-word unit "wie auch immer" outside of phraseology and namely in the area of Construction Grammar. In order to be able to identify the units treated in the text of the article as constructions in the sense of the Construction Grammar, one has to check to what extent these units correspond to the characteristics of a construction. As is known, the constructions are prototypical form-meaning-pairs the correspond to the principles of non-compositionality and conventionality. In this article the author shows how the phraseological units can be evaluated from the perspective of the Constructions Grammar. A lot of space is given to determine the constructional grammatical meaning, which contains not only the semantic but also the functional-pragmatic aspects. To this end the author makes an empirical observation of how the above-mentioned unit behaves in different contexts, which syntactic functions it can assume, and how the syntactic functions correlate with the semantic aspects. Such an empirical description enables the so- called corpus linguistic analysis.

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