Diachronic construction grammar / edited by Jóhanna Barðdal, Ghent University ; Elena Smirnova, Leibniz University Hanover ; Lotte Sommerer, University of Vienna ; Spike Gildea, University of Oregon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jóhanna Barðdal, 1969- editor.

Smirnova, Elena, editor.

Sommerer, Lotte, editor.

Gildea, Spike, editor.

Series:

Constructional approaches to language ; Volume 18.

Constructional Approaches to Language, 1573-594x ; Volume 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Construction grammar.

Linguistic change.

Historical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The grammatical literature on Dutch generally distinguishes two "passive" alternatives to the active double object construction, one of which, the so-called krijgen-passive is a fairly recent addition to the grammar, the earliest reported examples dating from around 1900. The present chapter addresses the early and subsequent history of this construction from a diachronic constructionist perspective. The first part of the chapter uses data from the 1900-1935 volumes of the Dutch periodical De Gids to reconstruct the lexical and semantic range of the krijgen-passive in its very first decades of

Contents:

Diachronic Construction Grammar; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; In memory of Anna Siewierska; References; Diachronic Construction Grammar; 1. Introduction; 2. Pre-constructional approaches to historical linguistics; 3. The basics of construction grammar and its diachronic implications; 3.1 Form-meaning correspondence; 3.1.1 Diachronic implications; 3.1.2 Traugott's, Smirnova's, Sommerer's and Fried's contributions; 3.2 The ConstructiCon; 3.2.1 Diachronic implications; 3.2.2 Torrent's contribution; 3.3 Location on different clines; 3.3.1 Diachronic implications

3.3.2 Colleman's contribution3.4 Grammatical relations; 3.4.1 Diachronic implications; 3.5 Usage-based approaches; 3.5.1 Diachronic implications; 3.6 Productivity; 3.6.1 Diachronic implications; 4. Afterword; References; Toward a coherent account of grammatical constructionalization; 1. Introduction; 2. A constructional account of change; 3. Grammatical constructionalization; 4. Exemplar-based change and the role of analogy; 5. BE going to revisited; 6. Conclusion; References; Constructionalization and constructional change; 1. Introduction

4.1 Main Trigger: Frequency and analogy effects on the definite NP level4.1.1 Corpus study of obligatory definiteness marking; 4.1.2 Emergence of a construction; 4.2 Additional Trigger: Influence of taxonomically related constructions; 4.2.1 Corpus study on pattern preferences in the general Old English NP; 4.2.2 Interpretation of results; 5. Conclusion; References; Manuscripts:; Electronic sources; Irregular morphology in regular syntactic patterns; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Data; 1.2 Constructional approach; 2. The morphology of Old Czech pseudo-PAs

3. Features relevant to the PA functional range4. Distribution of pseudo-PAs in OCz texts; 4.1 Functional range; 4.1.1 Linearization A; 4.1.2 Linearization B; 4.1.3 Linearization C; 4.2 Non-PA meanings; 5. Constructional analysis; 5.1 Representing context-motivated change; 5.2 What kind of change?; 6. Conclusions; References; On the relation between inheritance and change; 1. Introduction; 2. Corpora and method; 2.1 Corpora; 2.2 Methods; 3. The Para Infinitive family of constructions in 21st century Brazilian Portuguese; 4. The Para Infinitive family in the history of the Portuguese Language

4.1 Introduction

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

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ISBN:

9789027268617

9027268614