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Constructions and Language Change.

Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic change is highly context-dependent and somehow tied to constructions as linguistic units. This is the first volume to investigate the role of constructions and the potential of constructional approaches in linguistic change....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bergs, Alexander
Otros Autores: Diewald, Gabriele
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic change is highly context-dependent and somehow tied to constructions as linguistic units. This is the first volume to investigate the role of constructions and the potential of constructional approaches in linguistic change. The contributions in this volume comprise both theoretical and empirical studies, all of which are accessible for a general audience. While some contributions explicitly aim at comparing and unifying concepts from both traditional grammatical theories and recent construction grammar approaches, othe.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages)
ISBN:9783110211757
3110211750