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Usage-based approaches to language change /
This article opens with a brief discussion of the fundamental issues of usage, structure, grammaticalization and reanalysis and then introduces the key concept of an empty distinction, which is defined as a conventionalized distinction of expression that has lost its former motivation (semantic or n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in functional and structural linguistics ;
69. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of content; Introduction; 1. Original context of the notion 'usage-based'; 2. The interplay between usage and grammar; 3. From a cognition-centred to a communication-centred usage-based perspective; 4. Usage, variation, and change; 5. Overview of the contributions; References; Part 1. Challenging mainstream modelsof language change; Does innovation need reanalysis?; 1. Introduction ; 2. Reanalysis; 3. Problems; 3.1 Abruptness; 3.2 Ambiguity; 4. Innovation; 4.1 Innovation through analogy.
- 4.2 Innovation through other mechanisms4.3 Structural indeterminacy; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; On cognition and communication in usage-based models of language change ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Usage events, linguistic structure and the 'ontology of observing' ; 3. Models of communication ; 4. The primacy of meaning ; 5. The linguistic sign ; 6. Entrenchment, system history and the role of frequency ; 7. Dynamic stability: feedback, attractors and Eigenwerte ; 8. Innovation theory and actuation/actualisation ; 9. Variation and Diffusion ; Conclusion and outlook ; References.
- Part 2. The role of usage in semantic changeFrom inferential to mirative; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Background on Yurakaré; 1.2 Structure of the paper; 2. A usage- and interaction-based approach to semantic change; 3. Data and method; 4. Evidentiality and mirativity; 5. The Yurakaré inferential evidential =tiba ; 5.1 Evidentiality in Yurakaré; 5.2 The inferential reading; 5.3 Use in confirmation requests; 5.4 Confirmation requests with a small inferential step; 5.5 Use in reconfirmation requests; 5.6 Use in mirative responses; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusion; References; Abbreviations.
- Conversational transcriptGlosses; The motivation for using English suspended dangling participles; 1. Introduction; 2. Semantics of the dangling participial construction in English; 3. Subjective and intersubjective meanings of some suspended dangling participles: The rise of new constructional meanings; 3.1 Considering; 3.1.1 Characteristics of the main clause; 3.1.2 Omitted Object of Considering; 3.2 Moving on: Guiding the hearer's attention; 3.3 The Intersubjectivity of the suspended dangling participial construction: A case of constructionalization.
- 3.4 The subjectivity-intersubjectivity continuum3.5 Degree of intersubjectivity; 4. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; The nature of speaker creativity in linguistic innovation; 1. Introduction; 2. Terminological problems; 3. Speaker creativity in linguistic innovation; 4. The relationship between speaker creativity and its linguistic instantiations; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Part 3. The role of usage and structurein language change; Reanalysis and gramma(ticaliza)tion of constructions; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Basic assumptions, hypotheses and research questions.