The place of prototypicality in corpus linguistics. Causation in the hot seat

Gilquin, Gaëtanelle
(2006) Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-based Approaches to Syntax and Lexis — ISBN: [978-3-11-018605-5], 159-191, published

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This paper seeks to define prototypical causation as applied to English periphrastic causative constructions. More precisely, it compares three models of prototypical causation described in the literature with the most frequent types of constructions found in corpus data. It is shown that, on the whole, and despite some reconciling factors, linguistic frequency does not coincide with (what is presented in the literature as) cognitive salience. A number of hypotheses are put forward to explain this discrepancy, all of which underline the need to investigate the notion of prototypicality more thoroughly.
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Gilquin, G. (2006). The place of prototypicality in corpus linguistics. Causation in the hot seat. In Gries, Stefan Th. (ed.), Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics: Corpus-based Approaches to Syntax and Lexis (pp. 159-191). Mouton de Gruyter. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/154029