Nodes and networks in diachronic construction grammar / edited by Lotte Sommerer, Elena Smirnova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sommerer, Lotte, editor.

Smirnova, Elena, editor.

Series:

Constructional approaches to language ; Volume 27.

Constructional approaches to language ; Volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Construction grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"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, it is also being discussed how existing network models should be enriched or reconceptualized in order to integrate theoretical, psychological and neurological aspects missing so far"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The nature of the node and the network: Open questions in Diachronic Construction Grammar / Elena Smirnova and Lotte Sommerer

The nodes: Creation, change and loss: Constructionalization and the Sorites Paradox: The emergence of the into-causative / Susanne Flach

Constructionalization, constructional competition and constructional death: Investigating the demise of Old English POSS DEM constructions / Lotte Sommerer

The links: Vertical and horizontal relations: (Re)shaping the constructional network: Modelling shifts and reorganizations in the network hierarchy / Emmeline Gyselinck

Productivity and schematicity in constructional change / Florent Perek

Constructional networks and the development of benefactive ditransitives in English / Eva Zehentner and Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Allostructions, homostructions or a constructional family? Changes in the network of secondary predicate constructions in Middle English / Michael Percillier

Converging variations and the emergence of horizontal links: To-contraction in American English / David Lorenz

Beyond existing models: Paradigms lost, paradigms regained: Paradigms as hyper-constructions / Gabriele Diewald

Putting connections centre stage in diachronic Construction Grammar / Sara Budts and Peter Petré.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9789027261298

9027261296