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Author Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, author.

Title Ten lectures on a diachronic constructionalist approach to discourse structuring markers / by Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource : color illustrations
Series Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics, 2468-4872
Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics.
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Note on Supplementary Material -- Figures and Tables -- Preface by the Series Editor -- Preface by the Author -- About the Author -- Lecture 1 Introduction and Goals -- Outline -- 1A Goals -- "Knowledge of Language" in Cognitive Linguistics -- Goals of the Lectures -- What Does Knowledge of Language Consist of? -- How Can Changes in Knowledge of Language Be Accounted for in Terms of Cognitive Construction Grammar? -- Sources of Data and Evidence -- 1B Essentials of Cognitive Construction Grammar -- Basic Principles of Cognitive Linguistics
Basic Principles of Cognitive Construction Grammar -- 1 Knowledge of Linguistic Conventions -- 2 Storage in the Constructicon -- 3 Knowledge of Constructions Is Both "Item-Specific" and "Generalized or Schematic" -- 4 No Strict Dichotomy between Lexical and Grammatical Constructions -- 5 Semantics, Information Structure, and Pragmatics Are Interrelated -- 6 Knowledge of Language Is Usage-Based -- 7 Knowledge of Grammar Is Dynamic -- Approaches to Pragmatics -- Summary -- Lecture 2 Essentials of a Historical Perspective on Language -- Outline -- 2A Introducing Language Change
Why Does Language Change? -- What Changes? -- Innovation vs. Change -- Gradual vs. Instantaneous Change -- Mechanisms of Change -- Summary -- 2B Constructionalization and Constructional Changes -- Constructionalization and Constructional Changes -- A Revised Characterization -- Summary -- Lecture 3Grammaticalization and Constructionalization Compared -- 3A Grammaticalization -- Outline -- Some Characterizations of the Term Grammaticalization -- Unidirectionality -- Degrammaticalization -- Typology and Grammaticalization -- The "Loss-and-Gain" Model -- Contextual Expansion
3B The Complementarity of Constructionalization and Grammaticalization -- Background -- The Main Research Questions -- Positions Regarding Unidirectionality -- Areas of Overlap -- Reconceptualizing a Change in Terms of Diachronic Construction Grammar -- Summary -- Lecture 4 Discourse Structuring Markers, including Discourse Markers -- Outline -- 4A Introduction to Discourse Structuring Markers, including Discourse Markers -- Terminology -- Characterization of Pragmatic Markers -- 4B Introduction to Discourse Structuring Markers: AFTER ALL -- After all in Contemporary English
A Brief History of after all -- Conclusion -- Lecture 5 Some Alternative Approaches to the Development of Pragmatic Markers -- Outline -- 5A The Grammaticalization and Pragmaticalization Hypotheses -- The Grammaticalization Hypothesis -- Pragmaticalization -- 5B Discourse Grammar -- Cooptation -- Theticals -- Cognitive Construction Grammar -- Lecture 6 Elaboratives -- Outline -- Background -- 6A The Development of also and eac -- Also in PDE -- The Development of also -- The Development of eac -- 6B The Development of further, furthermore, moreover, and Other Elaborators -- Further -- Furthermore
Summary "To date little work has been done on pragmatics within cognitive linguistics, especially from a historical perspective. The lectures presented in this volume give the first systematic account of how pragmatics can be incorporated into cognitive linguistics using a Diachronic Construction Grammar perspective. The author combines detailed study of the historical development of Discourse Structuring Markers like all the same, after all and by the way and propose ways in which to model them. A number of topics are addressed including what a usage based approach to language change is, differences between innovation and change, how to think about analogy and networks, how combinations of Discourse Structuring Markers like now then became a unit, and whether clause-initial and -final positions are constructions. Refinements of Diachronic Construction Grammar are proposed and tested"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2022)
Subject Construction grammar -- Congresses
Discourse markers -- Congresses
Pragmatics -- Congresses
Cognitive grammar -- Congresses
Cognitive grammar
Construction grammar
Discourse markers
Pragmatics
Genre/Form lectures.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Lectures
Lectures.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conférences.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics (20th : 2021 : Bejing, China)
LC no. 2021059502
ISBN 9789004507050
9004507051