Grammar – Discourse – Context : : Grammar and Usage in Language Variation and Change /

Grammar – Discourse – Context : : Grammar and Usage in Language Variation and Change / / ed. by Kristin Bech, Ruth Möhlig-Falke.

This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although usage-based linguistics emp...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Anthonissen, Lynn,
Bech, Kristin,
De Smet, Hendrik,
Haumann, Dagmar,
Killie, Kristin,
Konvička, Martin,
Los, Bettelou,
Lubbers, Thijs,
López-Couso, María José,
Méndez-Naya, Belén,
Möhlig-Falke, Ruth,
Seoane, Elena,
Shibasaki, Reijirou,
HerausgeberIn:
Bech, Kristin,
Möhlig-Falke, Ruth,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns , 23
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 375 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Grammar – discourse – context: Grammatical variation and change and the usage-based perspective
  • Contextualizing Old English noun phrases
  • Syntax, text type, genre and authorial voice in Old English: A data-driven approach
  • The intensifier system of the Ormulum and the interplay of micro-level and macro-level contexts in linguistic change
  • Constructional change across the lifespan: The nominative and infinitive in early modern writers
  • Contextualizing dual-form adverbs in the Old Bailey Corpus: An assessment of semantic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic factors
  • Bridging contexts in the reanalysis of naturally as a sentence adverb: A corpus study
  • From parataxis to amalgamation: The emergence of the sentence-final is all construction in the history of American English
  • The role of context in the entrenchment of new grammatical markers in World Englishes
  • Paradigms, host classes, and ancillariness: A comparison of three approaches to grammatical status
  • The motivated unmotivated: Variation, function and context
  • Grammar in context: On the role of hypercharacterization in language variation and change
  • List of contributors
  • Index

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