Viktoriia Zhukovska (Вікторія Жуковська)

This article presents the results of quantitative-corpus parameterization of reference properties of English detached nonfinite constructions with an explicit subject, carried out from the perspective of the cognitive-quantitative approach to language study. Through the prism of cognitive-constructive grammar, the syntactic patterns under scrutiny are recognized as grammatical constructions, i.e. complex semiotic units, non-compositional cognitively motivated pairings of form and conceptual meaning/ function, stored as holistic, conceptually connected, and interacting structures. Corpus-quantitative parameterization of referential properties of the given constructions presupposes the analysis of the linguistic means of expressing coreference between five micro-constructions and a corresponding matrix clause, reflected by the factors “Coreference” (COREF) and “Absence of coreference” (ØCOREF) of the parameter “Reference relations” (REFREL). Quantitative verification of the data invol...

This article reports on the quantitative corpus-based investigation into the form-function interplay of the English detached adjectival construction with the explicit subject. Taking Usage-based Construction Grammar as its theoretical framework, this paper investigates the patterns of attraction of lexical items that appear in the main slots of the grammatical constriction. The data obtained substantiate the constructional status of the construction and determine its semantic and functional specification in present-day English.

This study presents the overview of theoretical and methodological assumptions of construction grammar in the interpretation of the framework’s current schools. The paper surveys formalists (Berkley Construction Grammar, Sign-Based Construction Grammar), usage-oriented (Cognitive Construction Grammar, Radical Construction Grammar, Usage-Based Construction Grammar) and computational language modelling (Fluid Construction Grammar, Embodied Construction Grammar) construction grammar schools. The review presents the most prominent issues of convergence and divergence within each model, focusing, inter alia, on a universal status of linguistic constructions, their quantity and types, issues of constructional compositionality and semantics, reliance on language use data, and specificity of notation systems.
The presented study has demonstrated that construction grammar is a thriving field of grammatical theorizing. Over the past two decades, the framework has become part of the mainstream linguistics, a sophisticated linguistic theory based on a solid cognitive and functional basis, with well-developed theoretical and methodological principles. By filling in the gaps in both traditional and formalist descriptions of language, construction grammar blurs the boundaries between vocabulary and grammar, semantics and pragmatics, meaning and use and represents language as a holistic organism. The holistic approach to language units aptly reflects the reality of mental activity, based on uniform cognitive mechanisms and carried out on a single language substrate.

This article discusses the usage-based foundations of construction grammar as a new theory of language. In recent years, construction grammar has become the linguistic mainstream represented by a growing quantity and variety of studies in the field. The theoretical overview of the basic principles of the usage-based theory and their incorporation by construction grammar presents a systematized and comprehensive account of the theoretical and methodological premises of the constructionist approach; determines grammatical construction as a complex linguistic sign, a conventional pairing of form and meaning; defines the integrative approach to the study of constructions; substantiates the understanding of the language as a network of constructions of different degree of complexity and schematicity. The paper enlists the main schools of contemporary construction grammar, considers their common fundamental tenets and basic dissimilarities and discloses the usage-based orientation of construction grammar by outlining the key concepts of the usage-based theory of language.
The paper introduces the principal assumptions of the usage-based approach: the language system is shaped by usage; usage data are important for the language theory; linguistic representations are emergent, but not fixed entities; the interrelation between the language system and nonlinguistic cognitive systems; the decisive role of the context in the language system functioning.
The conclusions of the conducted study highlight the potential of construction grammar as an innovative theoretical approach of contemporary linguistics, that applies integrative approach to linguistic units and presents the language system as a whole. In our future research we will apply the procedural apparatus of usage-based construction grammar to examine the English detached constructions with explicit subject on the basis of extensive corpus data with the use of quantitative methods (collostruction analysis) to obtain new objective findings on their linguistic nature and usage.
Key words: construction grammar, construction, usage-based theory of language, theoretical and methodological foundations

Abstract. The term ‘construction’ is actively employed by linguists of various schools and trends. Currently, this grammatical term has gained such exceeding popularity that its meaning has become vague and unclear. This state of affairs in modern linguistics may be explained by the simultaneous functioning of the established understanding of construction as a combination of words (units of language) formed by grammatical rules and a recent interpretation of CONSTRUCTION as a conventional combination of form with (semantic/disсourse) function.
This paper overviews interpretations of the term ‘construction’ from medieval to present-day linguistics. Recently, grammarians have become increasingly interested in the synchronic and diachronic study of language, taking into account the achievements of the innovative theories of language. The main focus of this study is the grammatical construction from the perspective of Construction grammar.
Roman grammarian Priscian of Caesarea was the first to employ the word ‘construction’ as a grammatical term. Medieval grammarians investigated the nature of construction and outlined its distinctive features as an ordered sequence of two words that grammatically agree and has sense. In the linguistics of the XX – XXI centuries, the definition of the term depends on the theoretical and methodological principles of a particular linguistic theory: from considering various linguistic phenomena as constructions, then complete exclusion of constructions from linguistic analysis and finally recognition of constructions as basic units of language.
Linguistic ‘renaissance’ of ‘constructions’ begins in the 80s of the XX century in Construction grammar. This integrative theory of language revisits the long-established term ‘construction’, claiming it the central unit of language and representation. CONSTRUCTIONS are viewed as two-sided symbolic units, conventional pairs ‘form – semantic/discourse function’. The form of CONSTRUCTION embraces syntactic, morphological and prosodic features, and the meaning covers semantic, pragmatic and discourse characteristics. Information about linguistic properties of CONSTRUCTIONS is formalized in a system of notations. CONSTRUCTIONS are characterized by such parameters as schematicity, complexity and productivity. CONSTRUCTIONS are organized into taxonomic networks based on inheritance relations.
Construction grammar rejects the strict boundary between vocabulary and syntax and between semantics and pragmatics and states that all CONSTRUCTIONS are part of the lexicon-syntax continuum (CONSTRUCTICON). Regardless of their structural complexity, all language units are considered CONSTRUCTIONS: morphemes, words, idioms, collocations, argument structures, as well as texts and genres. The comprehensive list of CONSTRUCTIONS that make up the mental grammar of the speaker is stored in the CONSTRUCTICON, a structured inventory of taxonomic structural networks. CONSTRUCTIONS as conventional patterns, units of grammar are opposed by CONSTRUCTS. CONSTRUCTIONS are seen as more abstract blueprints licensing grammatically correct linguistic units, while CONSTRUCTS are concrete realizations of constructions, i.e. actually used linguistic units, like sentences or phrases. Linguistic CONSTRUCTIONS are characterized by such parameters as syntagmatic complexity, schematicity, and productivity.
To conclude, the definition of structural, semantic, and functional properties of constructions as linguistic units depends on the principles and tenets of the specific linguistic approach. In the constructionist approaches CONSTRUCTIONS are understood as unpredictable; (completely) productive; cognitively entrenched (automated) and complex combinations, ‘form – meaning’ pairings. All symbolic units of language, from words and morphemes to texts and genres, including non-idiomatic and compositional structures are CONSTRUCTIONS.
Given the advantages and undeniable potential of Construction grammar, the next stage of our research will utilize the procedural apparatus of this theory of language to shed new light on the English Detached-Subject-PredicateVERBAL/NONVERBAL constructions in the entirety of their linguistic properties within a unified formalism.
Keywords: construction, Construction grammar, construct, constructicon

ZHUKOVSKA V.V. LINGUISTIC CORPUS AS A STATE-OF-THE-ART INFORMATION AND RESEARCH TOOL IN CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGE STUDY
This study presents an overview of corpus linguistics as an innovative information-semiotic approach in empirical linguistics. The paper substantiates the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the field, identifies its connection with cognitive and computational linguistics, discusses modern areas of corpus research and demonstrates the feasibility of utilising text corpus data in modern linguistic research. Particular attention is devoted to the characteristics of the linguistic corpus as a powerful multifunctional language information system used to address a broad range of research issues. The article defines prototypic features of the modern corpus, specifies types of quantitative data provided by the corpus, justifies the need for utilizing appropriate statistical methods and specialized computer data processing programs to verify the results of corpus analysis. Two dominant approaches in corpus research (corpus-based vs corpus-driven) are distinguished, the specifics of these approaches to a corpus analysis are outlined. In this paper, the author introduces the integrated methodology of conducting a quantitative-corpus research, incorporating the principles of corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches. It is stated that the active penetration of corpus technologies in all fields of linguistics and related sciences will strengthen the research position of corpus linguistics in the future and contribute to cross-paradigmatic and cross-disciplinary research of such a multifaceted phenomenon as human language. Given the high information and technical specifications of contemporary corpora, courses on corpus technologies should be included into the university training of Masters and Doctors of Philosophy in Linguistics.
Key words: corpus linguistics, linguistic corpus, types of corpus data, corpus-based research, corpus-driven research

Recently, much research in linguistics has become increasingly interested in the use of new methods and tools to analyze authentic linguistic data provided by text corpora. One of the most reliable corpus-based methods is the collostruction analysis, developed by A. Stefanowitsch and S. Th. Gries. Through statistical corpus analysis, this method examines semantics of grammatical construction by measuring the degree of mutual association/ repulsion between a construction and lexical items filling its main slot. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of applying the collostructional analysis to study semantics of one type of the English unaugmented detached construction with explicit subject, a non-finite construction of a binary structure consisting of a (pro)nominal subject and Participle I as a predicate, as in [ВКЕС [Subj cheeks] [Pred burning suddenly]].
Using R statistical software and the script for the collostructional analysis on empirical data drawn from the BNC-BYU corpus, we identify verbs, which reveal significant attraction to the predicate slot. The semantic analysis of the most strongly attracted verbs allows determining the semantic verb classes most closely associated with the given construction. It appears that the construction particularly attracts verbs involving the body, verbs of emission, verbs of motion, verbs of existence, touch verbs, and verbs of perception. These verbs belong to the aspectual classes of state and process. The analysis proves that the semantics of the construction [ВКЕС with-less[Subj general noun][Verb Participle І]] sets restrictions on filling its predicate slot with only those verbs whose arguments are compatible with the semantic roles defined by the construction. In its prototypical meaning the analyzed detached construction verbalizes a scenario in which Agent (the subject of the matrix clause) has a Partitive (the subject of the construction) in State/ Process (expressed by the predicate of the construction – Participle I).
The evidence from the study suggests that the collostructional analysis substantially advances our understanding of grammatical constructions and their meaning. Clearly, these are only preliminary findings and further studies regarding collostructional semantics of other types of English detached constructions with explicit subject would be worthwhile.

Adopting usage-based construction grammar and quantitative corpus linguistic research approaches, this study attempts to empirically analyze the dis-tributional properties of the two English synonymous grammatical constructions, i.e. detached augmented and unaugmented Participle I clauses with the explicit subject. Despite the extensive research on the morphological and functional features of the syntactic patterns under study, semantic and pragmatic dissimilarities between the two alternative syntactic structures thus far have not been studied, at least in a way of the quantitative examination of the subject slot of these constructions. Applying the methods of simple collexeme analysis and distinctive collexeme analysis to the linguistic data retrieved from the BNC-BYU corpus, the study explores the semantics of the investigated pair of constructions by identifying semantic frames instantiated by their significantly attracted noun col-lexemes. The distributional data obtained prove that the analyzed synonymous constructions are pragmatically distinct and semantically determined.

Словник покликаний надати фахівцям лінгвістичну допомогу у написанні наукової праці англійською мовою. Видання містить англійські клішовані вирази, фрази, мовленнєві формули та їх українські відповідники. Матеріал словника відібраний з автентичних англомовних наукових публікацій та структурований відповідно до основних композиційних частин сучасної англомовної наукової статті.
Призначений для аспірантів, магістрантів, науковців.

While many linguists employ corpus data for their research, few studies use quantitative methods to validate the findings. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of using the collostructional analysis to study semantics of grammatical construction. Adopting a collexeme analysis, the paper defines seven semantic classes of verbs which show statistically significant attraction to the predicative slot of the unaugmented English absolute construction with Participle I. The findings prove that collostructional analysis can be readily used to investigate the interaction of lexis and grammar.

Zhukovska V.V. Collostructional analysis of the English Absolute Construction
While much research in usage-based construction grammar involves processing big amounts of naturalistic usage data provided by computerized corpora, the analysis of corpus data does not always utilize methods of linguistic statistics to validate the research findings. In this paper, we investigate the constructional semantics of the English Absolute Participial Construction, a non-finite construction that has a binary structure and consists of a (pro)nominal subject and a non-finite or verbless predicate ([AC [SubjNoun] [PredParticiple I]]). The methodological framework of the study is that of the collexeme analysis, which, through statistical corpus analysis, measures the degree of mutual association between particular grammatical constructions and lexical items (Stefanowitsch & Gries 2003, 2005). Using the collexeme analysis on empirical data drawn from the BNC-BYU corpus, we identify the noun lexemes, which reveal significant attraction to the subject slot of the analyzed construction. The semantic analysis of the strongly attracted lexical items allows to determine the semantic classes of nouns that are most closely associated with the English Absolute Participial Construction. It appears that the construction particularly attracts nouns denoting parts of body (somatisms). We show that the collexeme analysis facilitates the study of interaction between lexemes and grammatical constructions and substantially advances our understanding of grammatical constructions and their meaning.

Key words: the collostructional analysis, the collexeme analysis, the English Absolute Participial Construction, collostructional semantics.

Жуковська В.В. Структура і теоретико-методологічні засади організації  англо-українського словника наукового мовлення // Актуальні проблеми сучасної лінгвістики та методики викладання мови і літератури (за матеріалами онлайн конференції, проведеної кафедрою міжкультурної комунікації та прикладної лінгвістики Навчально-наукового інституту іноземної філології Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка 6-10 лютого 2019 р. / За ред. доц. В. В. Жуковської. – Житомир: Видавництво ЖДУ ім. Івана Франка, 2019. – С. 42-49.

Жуковська В.В. КОРПУСНИЙ ПІДХІД У НАВЧАННІ ТА ВИВЧЕННІ АНГЛІЙСЬКОЇ МОВИ // Формування компетентності «Hавчання впродовж життя» як ключової вимоги професійної підготовки вчителя ХХІ століття / навчально-методичний посібник / Гирин О.В., Євченко В.В., Жуковська В.В, Калініна Л.В., Савчук І.І., Прокопчук Н.Р., Щерба Н.С.  та ін. – Житомир, 2018. – 168 с.

Zhukovska V.V. "Absoluteness" of the Absolute Construction in Present-day English: a Corpus-Based Analysis
The article focuses on the question of presence/absence of referential relations (coreference) between the unaugmented absolute construction and its matrix clause in Present-day English. Based on a representative sample from the corpus of the English language BYU-BNC, the traditional approach to the absolute construction as an "independent" structure that has no connection with the rest of the sentence is reconsidered. The analysis of referential relations between the unaugmented absolute construction and its matrix clause has established that cases of coreference (full and partial) significantly outweigh the cases of absence of coreference. These findings indicate that the construction is semantically/logically related to its matrix clause. Furthermore, the obtained data show that meronimic (part-whole) relations prevail in the analysed sample. More precisely, the relations of the types "component - integral object" and "member - collection" are the most numerous. The obtained results suggest that in Present-day English unaugmented absolute constructions compensate lack of syntactic connection with the matrix clause with closer semantic relations, explicitly expressed by complete or partial coreference. In our further research on the issue we intend to carry out a similar analysis for the English augmented absolute constructions in order to determine prevailing types of coreference between them and the matrix clause.
Key words: the unaugmented absolute construction, the matrix clause, reference links, coreference, the language corpus

Семантика граматичної конструкції досліджується на прикладі англійської абсолютної конструкції з дієприкметником І ([AC [SubjNoun] [PredParticiple I]]) із застосуванням новітнього методу квантитативної корпусної лінгвістики – колострукційного аналізу .

Participial predicative constructions that do not depend on any member of the matrix clause are a distinctive feature of many early Indo-European languages. These syntactic structures are traditionally known as absolute constructions or absolutes. In different ancient languages, absolute constructions display formal as well as functional parallels. The predicative center of the construction is the participle (a “logical predicate”) which typically agrees in number, case and gender with the noun (a “logical subject”) it refers to. The case of the subject and predicate constituents of the absolute construction is fixed in each particular language. The construction performs a function of a typical adverbial clause of time, cause, condition etc.
Although considerable amount of research has been devoted to the study of absolute constructions, there continues to be a gap in the understanding of when and how they came into being in different ancient languages. This paper aims to present a concise systematic analysis of structural and functional characteristics of absolute constructions in early Indo-European languages. We specifically focus on the historical development and original case of absolute constructions. The most wide-spread approaches to the origin of the given structures, namely the case theory, change of the word order, transformation of nominalization and temporal expressions, are discussed in greater detail.

Much recent work in the fields of Cognitive Linguistics and Construction Grammar has been based on the analysis of authentic linguistic data provided by computerized corpora. However, the analysis of such data does not always utilize statistical methods to validate the research findings. In this paper, we adopt the recently developed corpus-based method of collostructional analysis and investigate the English Absolute Participial Construction as it functions in BNC-BYU corpus. Designed by St. Gries and A. Stefanowitsch, the collostructional analysis aims to study the different kinds of association between words and constructions. Using one of the methods of the collostructional analysis, namely the collexeme analysis, we study nouns in the subject slot of the given construction. The collexeme analysis provides a ranked list of nouns, which reveal statistically significant attraction to the subject slot of the construction. The semantic analysis of the given nouns shows that lexemes denoting body parts prevail in the list, with the leading lexeme eyes. We suppose this fact can be explained by high frequency of the absolute construction in fiction where it is used as means of packing additional descriptive information about physical, emotional and psychological state of a person. Clearly, these are only preliminary findings and further study of the issue would be of interest.

Лінгвокомунікативні особливості англомовної наукової статті / В.В.Жуковська // Текст і дискурс: когнітивно-комунікативні перспективи: збірник матеріалів Міжвузівської наукової Інтернет-конференції (28–29 березня 2017 р.). – Кам‘янець-Подільський: Кам’янець-Подільський національний університет імені Івана Огієнка, 2017. – С. 54-62.

Англійська абсолютна конструкція як тип вторинної предикації / В.В. Жуковська // Збірник тез доповідей Міжнародної науково-практичної інтернет-конференції «Іноземна мова у професійній підготовці спеціалістів: проблеми та стратегії». – Кропивницький: РВВ КДПУ ім. В. Винниченка, 2017. – С.10-12.

Морфологічні та семантичні особливості суб’єктного компоненту англійської абсолютної конструкції / В.В. Жуковська // Актуальні проблеми філології та методики викладання іноземних мов (за матеріалами он-лайн семінару, проведеного кафедрою міжкультурної комунікації і прикладної лінгвістики Навчально-наукового інституту іноземної філології Житомирського державного університету імені Івана Франка 8-12 лютого 2017) / За ред. доц. В.В. Жуковської. – Житомир, 2017. – С. 38-46.

Теоретичні засади конструкційної граматики // Тези доповідей Всеукраїнської наукової конференції пам’яті доктора філологічних наук, професора Д.І.Квеселевича «Сучасний стан і перспективи лінгвістичних досліджень та проблем перекладу» – Житомир: Житомирський державний університет, 2014. – С. 34-37.

Absolute Construction in  English

// Актуальні проблеми сучасної лінгвістики та методики викладання
мови і літератури (за матеріалами онлайн конференції, проведеної
кафедрою міжкультурної комунікації та прикладної лінгвістики Навчально-
наукового інституту іноземної філології Житомирського державного
університету імені Івана Франка 10-15 лютого 2016 р. / За ред. доц.
В. В. Жуковської. – Житомир : Видавництво ЖДУ ім. Івана Франка, 2016.

STATISTIC VARIFICATION OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC IDENTIFICATION OF THE SPEAKER IN SPOKEN AMERICAN

Статистична верифікація соціолінгвістичної ідентифікації мовця в усному американському академічному дискурсі / В. В. Жуковська, В. В. Шилюк // VIII Міжнародна науково-практичної конференції „МІЖКУЛЬТУРНА КОМУНІКАЦІЯ: МОВА – КУЛЬТУРА – ОСОБИСТІСТЬ”. – Острог, 2015. - Вип. 54. – С. 105-108.

absolute construction

// Тези доповідей Всеукраїнської наукової конференції пам'яті доктора філологічних наук, професора Д.І.Квеселевича "Сучасний стан і перспективи лінгвістичних досліджень та проблем перекладу"  - Житомир, 2015. - С. 13-15.

The article focuses on conceptual and methodological basis of construction grammar as a sign-based language theory. The history of development and the state of the art of the given grammar theory are presented. The basic terms of construction grammar such as «construction», «construct», «constructicon» are defined.

Interrelation between lexico-semantic and grammatical categories of the English verb.
The article studies interrelation between the language levels. With the help of special statistical methods the
interdependence between semantics of the verb and its frequency in a particular model of grammatical combinabilty
was established. Key words: verb semantics, lexico-semantic group of verbs, model of grammatical combinability,
interrelation.

Interrelation between morphological and grammatical characteristics of the English verb in a
literary text.
The article studies the interaction of the English verb characteristics of different language levels. It is confirmed that
there exists interrelation between syntactical and morphological verb characteristics. This interrelation manifests itself
in the fact that some groups of conjugated verb forms are predominantly used in certain models of grammatical
combinability. It is proved that realization of grammatical characteristics of the verb on the syntactical level takes
place simultaneously with lexical ones.

Стаття присвячена дослідженню міжрівневих відносин у мові. За допомогою спеціальних статистичних методів було встановлено залежність між частотою вживання груп словозмінних форм англійського дієслова
та його семантикою. Ця залежність зумовлюється як сумісністю чи несумісністю семантики дієслівних одиниць і
темпоральної семантики групи словозмінних форм дієслова, так і прагматикою мови.

The article presents the results of a complex linguostatistic study of the English verb systemic and functional characteristics interaction in a literary text. The conducted linguostatistic analysis of semantic, morphological and syntactical verbal characteristics interrelation has proved the interdependence between the verb semantics and frequency of groups of its conjugated forms; between the verb semantics and type and frequency of the kernel patterns of its grammatical combinability. Interdependence of verbal characteritics frequencies is one of the manifestations of their interaction.
Key words: the verb, systemic characteristics, functional characteristics, interdependence.

Навчальний посібник покликаний ознайомити студентів
філологічних спеціальностей з базовими поняттями корпусної
лінгвістики, охарактеризувати її мету та завдання, описати методи
дослідження в цій галузі, представити основи корпусних технологій та
показати теоретичне й практичне значення корпусів для проведення
наукових досліджень в галузі лінгвістики та для навчання і вивчення
іноземної мови.

The article presents the account of linguistic approaches to the origin of the absolute construction in Old English. The essence of the absolute construction as a secondary predication structure has been defined, the distinctive features of the construction have been presented and its structural and morphological variability in Presen-day English has been analysed.