Constructions in contact 3 constructional schemas and patterns in language contact edited by Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin ; Steffen Höder, Kiel University

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Boas, Hans Christian, 1971- editor.

Höder, Steffen, editor.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Construction Grammar (11th : 2021 : Antwerp, Belgium) http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2025028616

Series:

Constructional approaches to language 1573-594X volume 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Construction grammar--Congresses.

Construction grammar.

Languages in contact--Congresses.

Languages in contact.

Multilingualism--Congresses.

Multilingualism.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2025

Summary:

"Over the last decade, usage-based Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a fresh look at fundamental questions in contact linguistics. This volume continues the series of works on Constructions in Contact (the first two volumes were published in 2018 and 2021). It presents new research on the constructionist modelling of language contact phenomena, the impact of multilingualism on argument structure constructions and the role of phonological units in language contact. The volume thus combines classical areas of constructional research with innovative ones, demonstrating the broad applicability of Construction Grammar for contact linguistics"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Preface

What makes Construction Grammar relevant for contact linguistics

and vice versa?

1. Language change, language contact, and Construction Grammar

2. Constructions and patterns

3. The papers in this volume

Acknowledgements

References

Diasystematic Construction Grammar at work

1. Introduction

2. DCxG as a contact linguistic approach

2.1 19th and 20th century

2.2 Language contact studies in the 21st century

2.3 Diasystematic Construction Grammar

2.4 DCxG as a tool for linguistic analysis

3. Towards a constructicographic approach in DCxG

3.1 Community-specific grammar

3.2 Non-modular grammar

3.3 Applying constructicographical insights to language contact data

4. Conclusions

Prepositions in English Argument Structure Constructions

2. Language contact and construction grammar: Historical and post-colonial varieties of English

2.1 Language contact in the history of English

2.2 Language contact in PCEs

2.3 Diachronic and Diasystematic Construction Grammar

2.4 Predicting variation and change in ACS under contact conditions

3. Methodology

4. Results

4.1 ASCs in early and Late Modern English

4.2 Prepositional and nominal complements in post-colonial Englishes

5. Conclusion

Funding

Corpora and databases

Appendix

Language contact and creolization

1.1 Creolization and language contact

1.2 Argument structure constructions in creoles and language contact

1.3 A fresh perspective on creole ASCs

2. Case study on motion event encoding in GFC

2.1 Languages involved in the formation of GFC

2.1.1 Colonial French

2.1.2 West-African Gbe languages

2.2 Data for Guianese French Creole and investigated motion constructions

2.3 GFC motion expressions

2.3.1 Motion verbs

2.3.2 Prefixes

2.3.3 Prepositions and adverbials

2.4 Self-/Directed-motion construction types and their usage profile

2.4.1 Single-verb self-motion constructions

2.4.1.1 Intransitive self-motion constructions

2.4.1.2 Transitive self-motion constructions

2.4.2 Multi-verb constructions (MVCs)

2.4.2.1 [alé/vini + V2]

2.4.2.2 [kouri + V2]

3. Summary of the results and outlook

Abbreviations and glosses (following the Leipzig Glossing Rules)

A French connection?

2. Building up to the establishment of a similarity link

3. Prepositional datives as the result of grammatical replication/code-copying?

4. A case study on -eren verbs

4.1 Methodology

4.2 Results

5. Further discussion

5.1 Aan and à as interlingual equivalents

5.2 French influence as a catalyst

6. Conclusion and outlook

Appendix A. Full test set of potentially "dative" verbs in

eren included in the investigation

Appendix B. The 22 dative-alternating

eren verbs, with their earliest aan-dative and DOC examples retrieved

Notes:

Papers contained in this volume were presented at a workshop on constructions which was a part of the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Construction Grammar, held at the University of Antwerp in 2021

Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN:

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902724457X

OCLC:

1545351973

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