Author : Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher :
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199679894
This book develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualize grammaticalization and lexicalization. The authors show that language change proceeds by micro-steps involving every aspect of grammar including pragmatics and discourse functions. A new and productive approach to historical linguistics.
Author : Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004507051
How do you get from ‘after all those movies’ to ‘I went to a movie after all’?
Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 33,37 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027259003
This volume explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality. Its main goal is to show how constructional analyses can help us address some of the long-standing questions that have informed discussions of modal expressions and their development, and to illustrate the processes that are involved in these developments on the basis of data from languages such as English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, and Japanese. The studies in this volume are organized around three interrelated topics. The first of these concerns the organization of modal constructions in a network. A second focus area of the studies in this volume concerns the developmental pathways that modal constructions follow diachronically. The third topic that ties the contributions of this volume together is the contrast between constructionalization and constructional change.
Author : Jóhanna Barðdal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027268614
Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and with what implications for the language system as a whole? This volume offers a broad introduction to the confluence of Construction Grammar and historical syntax, and also detailed case studies of various instances of syntactic change modeled within Construction Grammar. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar as a theory is particularly well suited for modeling historical changes in morphosyntax, and it also documents challenging new phenomena that require a theoretical account within any competing framework of syntactic change.
Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107013488
Is construction grammar a useful framework for the study of language change? Hilpert combines the current linguistic theory of construction grammar with advanced corpus-based methodology in order to study language change in a new way. This new perspective has wide-ranging consequences for the way historical linguists think about language change.
Author : Thomas Hoffmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195396685
This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to the theory, method, and applications of Construction Grammar, and will be a resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a representative overview of its many sub-theories and applications.
Author : Lotte Sommerer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027261296
This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional networks best and how to model changes in the constructicon, as for example node creation or loss, node-external reconfiguration of the network or in/decrease in productivity and schematicity. The authors discuss the theoretical status of allostructions, homostructions, constructional families and constructional paradigms. The terminological distinction between constructionalization and constructional change is revisited. It is shown how constructional competition but also general cognitive abilities like analogical thinking and schematization relate to the structure and reorganization of the constructional network. Most contributions focus on the nature of vertical and horizontal links. Finally, contributions to the volume also discuss how existing network models should be enriched or reconceptualized in order to integrate theoretical, psychological and neurological aspects missing so far.
Author : Martin Hilpert
Publisher : Distinguished Lectures in Cogn
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 2021-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004446786
In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics. 0Also available in Open Access.
Author : Myriam Bouveret
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902726015X
This cognitive contrastive study of ten languages (Chinese, Dalabon, English, French, Spanish, Romanian, Kurdish, Khmer, Polish, Tibetan) focuses on the concept of giving from six main points of view, namely argument structure, lexical semantics and event structure, role marking in the three argument construction and in other constructions, lexicalization, grammaticalization and constructionalization of the verb from a cognitive construction grammar point of view, and central and extended meanings. It is proposed that a continuum approach to grammar and lexicon is needed in order to describe the typological and historical facts. The volume argues for a concrete and abstract transfer ‘cluster model’ involving coverage of lexical and grammatical extension or bleaching phenomena and that the semantic extensions (metaphorical and otherwise) exploit various portions of this schema. The volume is deeply anchored in the Cognitive Construction Grammar theoretical movement, and proposes analyses of constructional phenomena to illustrate a grammar to lexicon continuum, in synchrony and diachrony: language change, grammaticalization chains, constructionalization analysis, and an invariant hypothesis of giving as a basic activity in human cognition.
Author : Kristel Van Goethem
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902726435X
Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties, e.g. abrupt versus gradual changes, morphological versus syntactic changes, or context-independent versus context-sensitive changes. The purpose of this collection of papers is to explore the concepts of linguistic category and category change from the perspective of Construction Grammar. Using data from a variety of languages, the authors address a number of themes that are central to current theorizing about category change, such as the question of whether or not categories should be considered discrete entities, how new categories arise, or whether category change can be considered as the emergence of a new construction, i.e. a new form-meaning pairing. The novel approach advanced in this volume will be of interest to historical linguists as well as to general linguists working on the nature of linguistic categories.
