Constructions and Language Change.

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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.
Temas:
Linguistic change.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Changement linguistique.
Grammaire comparée et générale.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Linguistic change
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction: Constructions and Language Change
  • The grammaticalization of NP of NP patterns
  • Constructions and constructs:mapping a shift between predication and attribution
  • Constructional idioms as products of linguistic change: the aan het + INFINITIVE construction in dutch
  • Where did this future construction come from? A case study of Swedish komma att V
  • Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-'s constructional properties in its conservation
  • Negative verbal clause constructions in Puyuma: exploring constructional disharmony
  • Borrowed rhetorical constructions as starting points for grammaticalization
  • (De)grammaticalisation as a source for new constructions: the case of subject doubling in Dutch
  • Syntax as a repository of historical relics
  • Backmatter

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