Constructions and Language Change / / ed. by Alexander Bergs, Gabriele Diewald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Bergs, Alexander,; Booij, Geert,; Chafe, Wallace,; Closs Traugot, Elizabeth,; Cuyckes, Hubert,; Diewald, Gabriele,; Fried, Mirjam,; Hilpert, Martin,; Mithun, Marianne,; Petré, Peter,; Ross, Malcom,; Vogelaer, Gunther,
• HerausgeberIn: Bergs, Alexander,; Diewald, Gabriele,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 194
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110211757; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110212129; 9783110212136; 9783110209457
• ISSN: 1861-4302
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110211757
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Alexander Bergs, Gabriele Diewald.

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. The contributions in this volume comprise both theoretical and empirical studies, all of which are accessible for a general audience. While some contributions explicitly aim at comparing and unifying concepts from both traditional grammatical theories and recent construction grammar approaches, others offer detailed case studies of exemplary problems from a constructional point of view. The papers offer a cross-linguistic perspective and deal with a number of different language families, ranging from Germanic to Austronesian.