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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bergs, Alexander, Diewald, Gabriele
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 194.
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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.