Category change from a constructional perspective / edited by Kristel Van Goethem, [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Van Goethem, Kristel, editor.

Series:

Constructional approaches to language ; Volume 20.

Constructional Approaches to Language, 1573-594X ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Construction grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Categorial grammar.

Reconstruction (Linguistics).

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Category Change from a Constructional Perspective

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Category change from a constructional perspective: Introduction

1. Linguistic categories: Discrete or gradient?

2. Category change

3. This volume

References

Part II. Category genesis: The creation of new categories

Chapter 2. Category genesis in Chitimacha: A constructional approach

1. Introduction

2. Background

3. Preverbs in Chitimacha

3.1 ʔap venitive

3.2 ʔapš reditive

3.3 hi andative

3.4 his adreditive

3.5 kap super-lative

3.6 kaːpʼs superreditive

3.7 ka translative

3.8 kas transreditive

3.9 ni detransitivizer

4. The constructionalization of Chitimacha preverbs

5. Conclusion

Appendix. Abbreviations

Chapter 3. Derivation without category change: A network-based analysis of diminutive prefixoids in Dutch

2. Theoretical preliminaries

2.1 Construction Morphology

2.2 Constructional networks

2.3 Inheritance links and lateral links

3. The present study

3.1 Sources and method

3.2 Results

3.3 Formal and semantic properties

4. A network analysis

4.1 Inheritance links and lateral links in the dpc network

4.2 A multiple source construction?

5. Concluding remarks

Appendix. Google and COW frequencies

Part III. Category change in syntactic constructions

Chapter 4. Grammaticalization, host-class expansion and category change

2. Theoretical framework

2.1 Construction grammar

2.2 Prototype theory

3. Host-class expansion in the have and be perfect in Dutch

4. Host-class expansion in two binominal quantifier constructions in Spanish.

4. Host-class expansion in two binominal quantifier constructions in Spanish

5. Summary and discussion

6. Conclusion

Chapter 5. Why would anyone take long?: Word classes and Construction Grammar in the history of long

1.1 Data sources

1.2 Prototypical adjective and adverb

2. The boundaries of adverb long

2.1 Between adverb and adjective?

2.2 Between adverb and adposition?

2.3 Between adverb and noun?

3. Excursus on Danish

4. Theoretical prerequisites

4.1 Vagueness

4.2 Decategorialisation

4.3 Word classes and Construction Grammar

5. A partial constructional history of temporal long

6. Closing remarks

Data sources and abbreviations

Secondary works

Chapter 6. Category change in the English gerund: Tangled web or fine-tuned constructional network?

2. Goals and methodology

3. Gerunds: Nominal and clausal deixis

3.1 Qualitative analysis: Types of deixis

3.2 Quantitative analysis: The rise of clausal deixis in bare nominal and verbal gerunds

4. Reflections on category change: Is the verbalization of the gerund a case of constructionalization?

Chapter 7. The emergence of a new adverbial downtoner: Constructional change and constructionalization of Dutch [ver van X] and [verre van X] 'far from X'

2. Downtoners

3. [ver van X] and [verre van X] in present-day Dutch

3.1 Method

3.2 Semantics

3.3 Complementation patterns

4. Diachronic developments

4.1 Method

4.2 [ver van X]

4.3 [verre van X]

4.4 Comparison [ver van X] and [verre van X]

5. Category change, constructional change and constructionalization

6. Conclusions.

Acknowledgements

Online sources

Part IV. Category change in morphological constructions

Chapter 8. Category change in construction morphology

1. Introduction: Override constructions

2. Coercion by morphological constructions

2.1 Coercion in word formation: change of semantic class

2.2 Category change through inflection

3. Construction-dependent morphology and category change

3.1 The op het A-e af construction

3.2 The aan de [V]N construction

3.3 The [voor de N]PP-construction

3.4 Category change in verbal constructions

4. Conclusions

Chapter 9. Evaluative morphology' in German, Dutch and Swedish: Constructional Networks and the Loci of Change

2.1 Sources of adjectival evaluatives

2.2 Evaluative prefixoids

2.3 Affixoids in construction morphology

2.4 Abstract subschemata for evaluative compounds

3. Evaluatives in German, Dutch and Swedish

3.1 Denominal evaluatives and nouns

3.2 Intensification of adjectives and adverbs

3.3 Evaluative 'loan prefixes'

4. Constructional networks

4.1 Paradigmatic relationships

4.2 Source constructions and formal variation

5. Conclusions

Chapter 10. Constructional change on the contentful-procedural gradient: The case of the -idz(o) construction in Griko

2. The suffix ‑idz(o): Synchronic variation and diachronic change

2.1 Verbalisers in Standard Modern Greek and Griko

2.2 The ‑idz(o) verbs

2.3 Criteria for grammaticality of ‑idz(o)

2.4 Paradigmatic interference and ‑idz(o)

3. Grammaticalisation within morphology: From derivation to inflection

3.1 Defining grammaticalisation

3.2 From derivational morphemes to inflectional class markers.

4. A "hybrid construction" between derivation and inflection

4.1 Grammaticalisation as constructionalisation

4.2 [X-idz(o)] as a hybrid construction

Primary sources

Part V. Discussion

Chapter 11. Change in category membership from the perspective of construction grammar: A commentary

2. Categories: Creation and change

2.1 The creation of a new category

2.2 Category restructuring

3. Gradualness

4. The constructional network

4.1 Links between constructions

4.2 Constructionalization, constructional changes and categories

5. Concluding comments

Construction index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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