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MULTILINGUALISM AND DIASYSTEMATIC CONSTRUCTION
GRAMMAR
Interview with Dr. Steen Höder
MULTILINGUISMO E GRAMÁTICA DE CONSTRUÇÕES
DIASSISTÊMICA
Entrevista com o Professor Doutor Steen Höder
Steen Höder1
Roberto de Freitas Junior2
Lia Abrantes Antunes Soares
João Paulo da Silva Nascimento
ABSTRACT:
KEYWORDS
Núcleo de Estudos sobre Interlínguas, an interlanguage studies group,
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RESUMO:
PALAVRAS-CHAVE:
Question 1
We would like to start by saying thanks for Dr. Höder’s accepting our invitation
for this interview. Before we start with the questions, we believe it would be fruitful if
you could talk a little about your recent projects and precisely about the forthcoming
Constructions in Contact 2 book.
Constructions in Contact 2Constructional
Approaches to LanguageConstructions
in Contact
International Conference on Construction Grammar
all
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Question 2
What was the insight for the DCxG proposal? And how would you summarize the
main tenets of the model?
one
Diasystematic Construction Grammar
idioconstructions
un
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diaconstructions
language
communities
,
Question 3
You recently said that “all speakers are multilingual or at least multilectal to some
extent, meaning that they use several dierent (standard) languages or various varieties/
dialects productively or receptively to some degree”. How do you relate such idea to the
Interlanguage traditional concept, DCxG and Usage-Based CxG?
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partial
type
interlanguage
Question 4
How do you see that DCxG is correlated with sociolinguistic aspects concerning
language variation and change?
how
consistently
innovation change
innovations
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change
Question 5
In the article Grammar is community-specic: Background and basic concepts of
Diasystematic Construction Grammar you mention the concept of language-specicity as a
pragmatic property of some constructions, saying that language-specic ‘idioconstructions’
coexist with language-unspecied ‘diaconstructions’ in the same constructional network.
Could you extend the idea of language-specicity/unspecicity trying to relate it to dierent
language contact phenomena?
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undun
än a
Question 6
How do you apply DCxG to Additional Languages Acquisition phenomena? Would
you talk a little about the article Acquisition of additional languages as reorganization
in the multilingual construction (Höder, Prentice & Tingsell, 2021), that will be part of
the Constructions in Contact 2 book? We believe these ideas will be a very important
contribution to the constructionist studies and the AL research, including sign languages
and deaf learners.
becoming multilingual
tabula repleta
tabula rasa
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reorganization
Question 7
During AL production it is common that speakers produce constructs that seem to
result from some sort of blending in which we can identify characteristics coming from L1
and L2 constructions. How can the concept of diaconstruction explain that?
do
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Question 8
How do domain-general cognitive processes play a part in explaining the DCxG
model?
categorization
rich memory
socio-pragmatic
joint attention
theory of mind
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Constructions in contact. Constructional perspectives on contact
phenomena in Germanic languages
Constructions in Contact 2. Language change, multilingual practices,
and additional language acquisition
Cognitive linguisticsKey topics
Applied
Linguistics
Trends in Cognitive
Sciences
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Sprachausbau im Sprachkontakt. Syntaktischer Wandel im Altschwedischen
Multilingual individuals and multilingual
societies
Constructions in
Contact 2. Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition
The Oxford handbook of construction grammar
Sociolinguistics. Language variation,
cultural models, social systems
Constructions in Contact 2. Language change, multilingual practices,
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