Germanic future constructions : a usage-based approach to language change /

This study offers a Construction Grammar approach to the historical development and modern usage of future constructions in English, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. On the basis of corpus data, constructions such as English be going to or German werden are analyzed as symbolic units that convey...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hilpert, Martin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam, NL : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Colección:Constructional approaches to language ; v. 7.
Temas:
German language > Grammar.
Construction grammar.
German language > Usage.
Linguistic change.
Allemand (Langue) > Grammaire.
Grammaire de construction.
Changement linguistique.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > German.
Construction grammar
German language > Grammar
German language > Usage
Linguistic change
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Germanic Future Constructions; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Theory and methodology; Comparing future constructions in a single language; Cross-linguistic comparisons; Collexemes and grammaticalization paths; The futurate present; Conclusions; References; Notes; Index; The series Constructional Approaches to Language.

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