“海外名家系列讲座” 第十五讲
题目：Toward a constructional framework for answering questions about grammaticalization
主讲人：斯坦福大学语言学系 Elizabeth Closs Traugott 教授
时间：2014年5月16日（周五）下午 2:00—4:00
地点：上外虹口校区法国厅
主办单位：英语学院
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主讲人介绍：
Elizabeth Traugott，著名语言学家、美国斯坦福大学语言学系教授。1960年毕业于牛津大学英文系，1964年于加州大学伯克利分校获得英语专业博士学位。1964年至1970年任教于加州大学伯克利分校，1970年起任教于斯坦福大学直至退休。Traugott教授在历史句法学、语义学、语用学等领域均有重要的贡献，尤其是语法化领域。她与Paul Hopper合著的《语法化》（Grammaticalization.1993/2003）一书是该领域最重要的著作之一，自90年代以来对语法化研究的理论和方法产生了深远的影响。2013年出版的《构式化与构式变化》体现了Traugott教授近年在此领域的最新思考和研究成果（Elizabeth Closs and Graeme Trousdale. 2013. Constructionalization and Constructional Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press.）
讲座内容：
There are several ongoing debates about grammaticalization. Three questions are of particular importance: 1. How can the two current models of grammaticalization be reconciled? One is a model of grammaticalization as reduction, the other a model of grammaticalization as expansion. 2. How can the dual roles of form and meaning in change be fully recognized? 3. What is the proper role of analogy?
Traugott proposes that a construction grammar approach to change provides a framework that helps to address these questions. Using Goldberg’s (1995, 2006) and Croft’s (2001) usage models of construction grammar as a foundation, and assuming that language is a system that is both communicative and cognitive, she outlines a constructionalist approach to change. Constructionalization is shown to encompass and go beyond grammaticalization. It provides the ability to see how networks, schemas, and micro-constructions are created or grow and decline, as well as the ability to track the development of patterns at both substantive and schematic levels, and to account for the ways in which reduction and expansion are intertwined. It also allows the researcher to see how each micro-construction has its own history within the constraints of larger patterns, most immediately schemas, but also related network nodes.