Context, Intent and Variation in Grammaticalization

Hendrik De Smet, Peter Petré, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9783112213933
  9783110752953
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110753158
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Historical & Comparative Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• 1 General introduction Context, intent and variation in grammaticalization
• 2 Looking at grammaticalization from the perspective of short-time changes in real time A comparative corpus-based study of literally
• 3 A quantum of salience Reconsidering the role of extravagance in grammaticalization
• 4 Maximizing the data-drivenness of grammaticalization research A case study of ‘to death’
• 5 From chance to epistemic possibility On the grammaticalization of happenstance expressions in English
• 6 The structured nature of prepositional meaning
• 7 Competition in antagonistic verb complementation A diachronic, corpus-based study of fight, oppose and protest in (Late) Modern British and American English
• 8 Promoting and inhibiting forces at work A corpus-based analysis of negative contraction in the recent history of English
• 9 Making interpretation redundant The grammaticalization of that-clauses after verbs of deception
• 10 Straddling a syntactic divide Tracking sentential complements of promise and threaten in CLMET3.0
• 11 The development of prose style in English horse manuals Interpreting stylometric findings
• Index