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Constructions and Language Change / ed. by Alexander Bergs, Gabriele Diewald.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 194Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110198669
  • 9783110211757
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 417.7 417/.7
LOC classification:
  • P142.C67 2008
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Constructions and Language -- Change -- The grammaticalization of NP of NP patterns -- Constructions and constructs:mapping a shift -- between predication and attribution -- Constructional idioms as products of linguistic -- change: the aan het + INFINITIVE construction in dutch -- Where did this future construction come from? A -- case study of Swedish komma att V -- Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-’s -- constructional properties in its conservation -- Negative verbal clause constructions in Puyuma: -- exploring constructional disharmony -- Borrowed rhetorical constructions as starting -- points for grammaticalization -- (De)grammaticalisation as a source for new -- constructions: the case of subject doubling in Dutch -- Syntax as a repository of historical relics -- Backmatter
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Constructions and Language -- Change -- The grammaticalization of NP of NP patterns -- Constructions and constructs:mapping a shift -- between predication and attribution -- Constructional idioms as products of linguistic -- change: the aan het + INFINITIVE construction in dutch -- Where did this future construction come from? A -- case study of Swedish komma att V -- Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-’s -- constructional properties in its conservation -- Negative verbal clause constructions in Puyuma: -- exploring constructional disharmony -- Borrowed rhetorical constructions as starting -- points for grammaticalization -- (De)grammaticalisation as a source for new -- constructions: the case of subject doubling in Dutch -- Syntax as a repository of historical relics -- Backmatter

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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