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....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2008.
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Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
194. |
Temas: | |
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.