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Title Constructions and language change / edited by Alexander Bergs, Gabriele Diewald
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations
Series Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; 194
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 194
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Linguistic change.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
17.15 historical linguistics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Linguistic change
Sprachwandel
Konstruktionsgrammatik
Konstruktion Linguistik
Taalverandering.
Grammaticalisering.
Linguistic change.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Språkförändringar.
Konstruktion <Linguistik>
Form Electronic book
Author Bergs, Alexander
Diewald, Gabriele
LC no. 2008032045
ISBN 9783110211757
3110211750
1283398230
9781283398237
9786613398239
6613398233