English No Matter Construction: A Construction-based Perspective

Autor:	LeeSeung Han, KimJong-Bok
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Inheritance (object-oriented programming) Head-driven phrase structure grammar Expression (architecture) Computer science Head (linguistics) Sluicing Construction grammar Interrogative Value (mathematics) Linguistics
Zdroj:	The Journal of English Language and Literature. 57:959-976
ISSN:	2465-8545 1016-2283
DOI:	10.15794/jell.2011.57.6.003
Popis:	The expression no matter, combining with an interrogative clause X, expresses ‘it doesn’t matter what the value is of X’ and displays many syntactic and semantic peculiarities. To better understand the grammatical properties of the construction in question, we investigate English corpora available online and suggest that some of the irreducible properties the construction displays can be best captured by the inheritance mechanism which plays a central role in the HPSG and Construction Grammar. We show that the construction in question has its own constructional properties, but also inherits properties from related major head constructions.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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