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Lost in change : causes and processes in the loss of grammatical elements and constructions /

"While research on language change has formulated robust empirical generalisations about processes and motivations underlying the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline and loss is less well understood. So far a systematic investigation into the processes and motivations of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kranich, Svenja (Editor ), Breban, Tine, 1980- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021.
Colección:Studies in language companion series, volume 218
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a "While research on language change has formulated robust empirical generalisations about processes and motivations underlying the emergence and spread of linguistic elements, their decline and loss is less well understood. So far a systematic investigation into the processes and motivations of decline and loss in language change is lacking. This book is a first step towards remedying this state of affairs. It brings together a varied set of empirical investigations into decline and loss, spanning morphology, syntax and the lexicon, in different languages. Their authors apply diverse methodologies and represent different theoretical approaches. On the basis of this broad span of studies, authors and editors propose generalisations related to decline and loss and assess similarities and differences with processes and motivations of emergence and spread. The book aims to inspire and provide hypotheses for further studies of decline and loss. It will appeal to historical linguists and others interested in language change"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
505 0 |a Intro -- Lost in Change -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Lost in Change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Studying loss: Hypotheses and generalizations -- 2.1 Data and methods for studying loss -- 2.2 Modelling loss: Classifications and theories -- 2.3 The process of loss -- 2.4 Causes and motivations for loss -- 2.5 Potential universals -- 3. Summaries of the contributions in this volume -- References -- 1. A typological perspective on the loss of inflection -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Loss of forms -- 2.1 Convergence -- 2.1.1 Phonological change 
505 8 |a 2.1.2 Morphological change -- 2.2 Replacement -- 2.2.1 Functionally motivated change -- 2.2.2 Formally motivated change -- 3. Loss of features -- 3.1 Free variation -- 3.2 Lexical redistribution -- 3.3 Paradigmatic redistribution -- 3.4 Rebranding -- 4. Loss of cells -- 5. Grammaticalisation and the loss of inflection -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- 2. So-adj-a construction as a case of obsolescence in progress -- 1. Introduction -- 2. So-adj-a construction -- an example of the Big Mess Construction -- 2.1 Noun phrases with so-adj predeterminers -- their characteristics -- 3. Diachronic account 
505 8 |a 3.1 The construction's origin: A handy stylistic device from the very beginning? -- 3.2 Frequency of use -- 3.2.1 Methodology -- 3.2.2 Results and discussion -- 4. Grammatical obsolescence -- 4.1 Negative correlation between time and the frequency of use -- 4.2 Distributional fragmentation -- 4.2.1 Methodology -- 4.2.2 Results and discussion -- 4.3 Paradigmatic atrophy -- 4.4 Competition on the constructional level -- 4.4.1 That-adj-a construction -- 4.4.2 Competition with the that-adj-a construction: An explanation -- 4.4.3 Such-a-adj construction -- 4.5 Larger changes 
505 8 |a 4.6 Summary of the results -- 5. Conclusions and outlook -- Acknowledgements -- Language corpora -- Software -- References -- 3. The impersonal construction in the texts of Updated Old English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Updated Old English -- 2.1 Scribal practices followed in Updated Old English -- 2.2 The Updated Old English data for the present study -- 2.3 The data in their linguistic context -- 3. The story of the impersonal construction -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 Lexico-semantic characteristics of the impersonal verbs in the sample 
505 8 |a 4.2 Alterations in the record of the impersonal constructions in the sample -- 5. Discussion and concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 4. Corpus driven identification of lexical bundle obsolescence in Late Modern English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Material -- 3. Methodology -- 3.1 Thresholds -- 3.2 Selection -- 4. Technical aspects -- 5. Analysis -- 5.1 Trash -- 5.2 Results -- 5.2.1 Terminology -- 5.2.2 "Quasi" terminology -- 5.2.3 Appellations -- 5.2.4 Legal/administrative phrases -- 5.2.5 Dating -- 5.2.6 Pragmatic markers -- 5.2.7 Replacement in collocations 
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