Ten lectures on a diachronic constructionalist approach to discourse structuring markers / / by Elizabeth Closs Traugott.

• Superior document: Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics ; ; Volume 27
• VerfasserIn: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics ; Volume 27.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (539 pages)
• Notes: How do you get from ‘after all those movies’ to ‘I went to a movie after all’?
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Copyright page /; Note on Supplementary Material /; Figures and Tables /; Preface by the Series Editor /; Preface by the Author /; About the Author /; Lecture 1 Introduction and Goals /; Lecture 2 Essentials of a Historical Perspective on Language /; Lecture 3 Grammaticalization and Constructionalization Compared /; Lecture 4 Discourse Structuring Markers, including Discourse Markers /; Lecture 5 Some Alternative Approaches to the Development of Pragmatic Markers /; Lecture 6 Elaboratives /; Lecture 7 Contrastives /; Lecture 8 Digressives /; Lecture 9 Position /; Lecture 10 Constructional Networks, Wrap Up /; References /; About the Series Editor /; Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers /; Appendix /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004507050; 9789004506909
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Elizabeth Closs Traugott.

To date little work has been done on pragmatics within cognitive linguistics, especially from a historical perspective. The lectures presented in this volume give the first systematic account of how pragmatics can be incorporated into cognitive linguistics using a Diachronic Construction Grammar perspective. The author combines detailed study of the historical development of Discourse Structuring Markers like all the same , after all and by the way and propose ways in which to model them. A number of topics are addressed including what a usage based approach to language change is, differences between innovation and change, how to think about analogy and networks, how combinations of Discourse Structuring Markers like now then became a unit, and whether clause-initial and -final positions are constructions. Refinements of Diachronic Construction Grammar are proposed and tested.