Constructions and Language Change
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Constructions and Language Change

  1. 271 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Constructions and Language Change

About this book

Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic change is highly context-dependent and somehow tied to constructions as linguistic units. This is the first volume to investigate the role of constructions and the potential of constructional approaches in linguistic change. The contributions in this volume comprise both theoretical and empirical studies, all of which are accessible for a general audience. While some contributions explicitly aim at comparing and unifying concepts from both traditional grammatical theories and recent construction grammar approaches, others offer detailed case studies of exemplary problems from a constructional point of view. The papers offer a cross-linguistic perspective and deal with a number of different language families, ranging from Germanic to Austronesian.

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Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Table of contents
  3. Introduction: Constructions and Language Change
  4. The grammaticalization of NP of NP patterns
  5. Constructions and constructs:mapping a shift between predication and attribution
  6. Constructional idioms as products of linguistic change: the aan het + INFINITIVE construction in dutch
  7. Where did this future construction come from? A case study of Swedish komma att V
  8. Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-’s constructional properties in its conservation
  9. Negative verbal clause constructions in Puyuma: exploring constructional disharmony
  10. Borrowed rhetorical constructions as starting points for grammaticalization
  11. (De)grammaticalisation as a source for new constructions: the case of subject doubling in Dutch
  12. Syntax as a repository of historical relics
  13. Backmatter