Competition in Language Change : : The Rise of the English Dative Alternation / / Eva Zehentner.
This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics – why variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated – by revisiting the so far neglected history of the English dative alternation. The alternation between a nominal and a prepositional ditransitive pattern (Jo...
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Zehentner, Eva, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Competition in Language Change : The Rise of the English Dative Alternation / Eva Zehentner. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019] ©2019 1 online resource (XX, 476 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 1434-3452 ; 103 Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. PDE ditransitives in usage-based construction grammar -- 3. Ditransitives in the history of English -- 4. Ditransitives in a corpus of Middle English -- 5. Evolutionary linguistics and Evolutionary Game Theory -- 6. Evolutionary construction grammar -- 7. Competition and cooperation in the English dative alternation: An evolutionary construction grammar account -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics – why variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated – by revisiting the so far neglected history of the English dative alternation. The alternation between a nominal and a prepositional ditransitive pattern (John gave Mary a book vs. John gave a book to Mary) emerged in Middle English and is closely connected to broader changes at that time. Accordingly, the main quantitative investigation focuses on ditransitive patterns in the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English; in addition, the book employs an Evolutionary Game Theory model. The results are approached from an ‘evolutionary construction grammar’ perspective, combining evolutionary thinking with diachronic constructionist notions, and the alternation’s emergence is interpreted as a story of constructional innovation, competition, cooperation and co-evolution. The book not only provides a thorough and detailed analysis of the history of one of the most-discussed syntactic phenomena in English, but by fusing two frameworks and employing two different methodologies also presents a highly innovative approach to a problem of relevance to historical linguistics in general. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. bisacsh Constructional Competition. Dative Alternation. Ditransitive. Evolutionary Construction Grammar. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1 9783110762464 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019 9783110719567 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton Contemporary 2016-2019 9783110742978 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2019 English 9783110610307 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2019 9783110606287 ZDB-23-DSP EPUB 9783110630442 print 9783110630343 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110633856 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110633856 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110633856/original |
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Zehentner, Eva, Zehentner, Eva, Competition in Language Change : The Rise of the English Dative Alternation / Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. PDE ditransitives in usage-based construction grammar -- 3. Ditransitives in the history of English -- 4. Ditransitives in a corpus of Middle English -- 5. Evolutionary linguistics and Evolutionary Game Theory -- 6. Evolutionary construction grammar -- 7. Competition and cooperation in the English dative alternation: An evolutionary construction grammar account -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. PDE ditransitives in usage-based construction grammar -- 3. Ditransitives in the history of English -- 4. Ditransitives in a corpus of Middle English -- 5. Evolutionary linguistics and Evolutionary Game Theory -- 6. Evolutionary construction grammar -- 7. Competition and cooperation in the English dative alternation: An evolutionary construction grammar account -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. PDE ditransitives in usage-based construction grammar -- 3. Ditransitives in the history of English -- 4. Ditransitives in a corpus of Middle English -- 5. Evolutionary linguistics and Evolutionary Game Theory -- 6. Evolutionary construction grammar -- 7. Competition and cooperation in the English dative alternation: An evolutionary construction grammar account -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index |
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