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Constructional change in English : developments in allomorphy, word formation, and syntax /
"Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology into a new way of studying language change. Constructions are generalizations over remembered exemplars of language use. These exemplars are stored with all their formal and functional properties, yielding const...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Studies in English language.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology into a new way of studying language change. Constructions are generalizations over remembered exemplars of language use. These exemplars are stored with all their formal and functional properties, yielding constructional generalizations that contain many parameters of variation. Over time, as patterns of language use are changing, the generalizations are changing with them. This book illustrates the workings of constructional change with three corpus-based studies that reveal patterns of change at several levels of linguistic structure, ranging from allomorphy to word formation and to syntax. Taken together, the results strongly motivate the use of construction grammar in research on diachronic language change. This new perspective has wide-ranging consequences for the way historical linguists think about language change. It will be of particular interest to linguists working on morpho-syntax, sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics"--Publisher's website |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 233 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-228) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107306424 1107306426 9781107314177 1107314178 9781139004206 1139004204 1107234921 9781107234925 1107301343 9781107301344 1107552079 9781107552074 1107305551 9781107305557 1107308623 9781107308626 |