Constructions and Language Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructions and Language Change write by Alexander Bergs. This book was released on 2008-11-03. Constructions and Language Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change
On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change write by Hendrik De Smet. This book was released on 2015-11-15. On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In fact, the involvement of multiple source constructions is unexceptional. The phenomenon is observed in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. It is seen in language-internal change as well as in contact-induced change. Interactions may obtain between independent but historically related constructions as well as between historically unrelated constructions. The contributions to this volume, on the one hand, present specific case studies on changes involving multiple source constructions, in various domains of grammar and in a variety of languages. On the other hand, they discuss how such changes can be accommodated in current theoretical models of language. Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 37:3 (2013).
Constructions in Contact 2
Constructions in Contact 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructions in Contact 2 write by Hans C. Boas. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Constructions in Contact 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and insights in three major ways. First, it presents new constructional research on a wide range of language contact scenarios including Afrikaans, American Sign Language, English, French, Malayalam, Norwegian, Spanish, Welsh, as well as contact scenarios that involve typologically different languages. Second, it also addresses other types of scenarios that do not fall into the classic language contact category, such as multilingual practices and language acquisition as emerging multilingualism. Third, it aims to integrate constructionist views on language contact and multilingualism with other approaches that focus on structural, social, and cognitive aspects. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar is a framework particularly well suited for analyzing a wide variety of language contact phenomena from a usage-based perspective.
Diachronic Construction Grammar
Diachronic Construction Grammar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diachronic Construction Grammar write by Jóhanna Barðdal. This book was released on 2015-07-15. Diachronic Construction Grammar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Germanic Future Constructions
Germanic Future Constructions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Germanic Future Constructions write by Martin Hilpert. This book was released on 2008-08-28. Germanic Future Constructions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study offers a Construction Grammar approach to the historical development and modern usage of future constructions in English, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. On the basis of corpus data, constructions such as English be going to or German werden are analyzed as symbolic units that convey a range of temporal and modal meanings. A special focus lies on the main verbs that occur with these constructions. Statistical co-occurrence patterns between constructions and lexical items guide the semantic analyses in this study: It is argued that a construction that conventionally occurs with main verbs such as write or speak differs functionally from a construction that typically occurs with verbs such as rain or increase. The same approach is also applied historically: If a construction co-occurs with different main verbs at subsequent stages in time, this is seen as a sign of semantic change.
