Competition in Language Change : : The Rise of the English Dative Alternation /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
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Zehentner, Eva,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 103
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XX, 476 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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