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Author Vergara Wilson, Damián Chase

Title Categorization and constructional change in Spanish expressions of 'becoming' / by Damián Vergara Wilson
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; volume 4
Brill's studies in historical linguistics ; v. 4.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Charts; List of Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Rich Memory Models and Cognition in Linguistic Evolution; 1.1.1 Rich Memory Storage: The Exemplar Model and the Formation of Categories; 1.1.2 The Exemplar Model vs. the Prototype Model; 1.1.3 The Exemplar Model and Diachronic Data; 1.1.4 Analogical Extension; 1.1.5 Chunking, Analyzability, and Compositionality; 1.1.6 Grammaticalization; 1.2 Usage-Based Analysis; 1.2.1 Constructionalist Approaches to Usage-Based Linguistic Analysis
1.2.2 Diachronic Construction Grammar1.3 The Construction quedar(se) + ADJ; 1.4 Productivity and quedar(se) + ADJ; 1.5 Research Overview; Chapter 2 'Becoming' in Spanish; 2.1 An Overview of 'Becoming' in Spanish; 2.2 Accounting for Expressions of 'Becoming' without Examining Usage; 2.3 Testing Criteria for Usage in Change-of-State Expressions; 2.4 Categorization of Verb + Adjective Combinations through Speaker Experience; 2.4.1 The Similarity Experiment; 2.4.2 The Acceptability Experiment; 2.5 Lexical Persistence in Verbs of 'Becoming'; 2.6 Conclusion; Chapter 3 Data and Methods
3.1 Data Source: The Quedar(se) + ADJ Database (QAD)3.2 Data Extraction; 3.3 Method of Semantic Analysis and Category Formation; 3.3.1 Central Members of Gradient Adjective Categories; 3.3.2 The Category Centered on quedar(se) muerto 'To Be Left Dead' in the 1600s; 3.3.3 Opposites; 3.3.4 Prepositional Phrases in quedar(se) + ADJ; 3.4 Conclusion; Chapter 4 Overview of quedar(se) + ADJ through Time; 4.1 Overview; 4.2 Productivity and quedar(se) + ADJ; 4.3 Overview of quedar(se) + ADJ Types, Tokens, and Frequency through Time; 4.3.1 Conventionalized Instances of Constructions (CICs)
4.3.2 Prefabs4.3.3 The Rise of quedar and the Demise of fincar; 4.3.4 The Endurance of quedar(se) + ADJ and the Emergence of other Expressions of 'Becoming'; 4.3.5 Emergence of quedar(se) + ADJ; 4.4 Summary; Chapter 5 The solo 'Alone' Clusters: Continual Expansion with a Robust Central Member; 5.1 The solo Clusters in the 1200s; 5.2 The solo Clusters in the 1300s; 5.3 The solo Clusters in the 1400s; 5.4 The solo Clusters in the 1500s; 5.5 The solo Clusters in the 1600s; 5.6 The solo Clusters in the 1700s; 5.7 The solo Clusters in the 1800s; 5.8 Overview of Clusters Centering on solo
5.8.1 Quedar(se) solo as a Prefab5.8.2 Quedar(se) solo: Frequency of the Category's Central Member; 5.8.3 Type Frequency and Productivity in the quedar(se) + solo Clusters; 5.9 Conclusion; Chapter 6 The rico / pobre 'Rich / Poor' Clusters: The Relationship of Opposites in Category Development; 6.1 The rico / pobre Clusters in the 1200s; 6.2 The rico / pobre Clusters in the 1300s; 6.3 The rico / pobre Clusters in the 1400s; 6.4 The rico / pobre Clusters in the 1500s; 6.5 The rico / pobre Clusters in the 1600s; 6.6 The rico / pobre Clusters in the 1700s
Summary In Categorization and Constructional Change Damián Vergara Wilson analyzes the relationship between semantic categorization, constructional change, and productivity in the Spanish expression of ''becoming'' quedar(se) + ADJ. Productivity of the construction varies reflecting the characteristics of emerging categories of adjectives
Notes Includes index
Revised from author's dissertation "Formulaic language and adjective categories in eight centuries of the Spanish expression of 'becoming' /quedar(se)/ + ADJ", University of New Mexico, 2009
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 12, 2014)
Subject Spanish language -- Figures of speech
Spanish language -- Verb
Spanish language -- Adverbs
Historical linguistics.
Construction grammar.
historical linguistics.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Spanish.
Construction grammar
Historical linguistics
Spanish language -- Figures of speech
Spanish language -- Verb
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004274456
9789004274457