Constructionalization And Constructional Changes
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| Author | : Elizabeth Closs Traugott |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2013-11 |
| Genre | : 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 |
| Total Pages | : 539 |
| Release | : 2022-01-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9004507051 |
How do you get from ‘after all those movies’ to ‘I went to a movie after all’?
| Author | : Jóhanna Barðdal |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2015-07-15 |
| Genre | : 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 |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2013-02-28 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Martin Hilpert |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2021-10-15 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Thomas Hoffmann |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 609 |
| Release | : 2013-04-18 |
| Genre | : 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 |
| Total Pages | : 363 |
| Release | : 2020-05-15 |
| Genre | : 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 | : Myriam Bouveret |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2021-03-15 |
| Genre | : 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 |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2018-03-15 |
| Genre | : 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.
| Author | : Evie Coussé |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2018-05-23 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027264163 |
Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely pretheoretical notion of construction in the theoretical framework of construction grammar. As such, grammaticalization research increasingly interacts and converges with the emerging field of diachronic construction grammar. This volume brings together articles that are situated at the intersection of grammaticalization research and diachronic construction grammar. All articles share an interest in integrating insights from grammaticalization research and construction grammar in order to advance our understanding of empirical cases of grammaticalization. Constructions at various levels of abstractness are investigated, both in well-documented languages, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, Norwegian and English, and in less-described languages, such as Manchu and Mongolian.
