Constructionalization and constructional changes
This title develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualise grammaticalisation and lexicalisation. The authors show that language change proceeds by micro-steps involving every aspect of grammar including pragmatics and discourse functions.
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- Full title :Constructionalization and constructional changes / Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale.
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This title develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualise grammaticalisation and lexicalisation. The authors show that language change proceeds by micro-steps involving every aspect of grammar including pragmatics and discourse functions.
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- Publication Date:2013.
- Edition:First edition
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
Notes
First series statement from dust jacket.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvii, 278 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199679898, 0199679894
- oclc:ocn858004956
- LC Classification:PE1075
- Dewey Decimal:425.09
Table of Contents
The Framework -- Introduction -- Constructional approaches to language -- Networks and construction grammar -- Constructions and factors relevant to them -- A constructional view of change -- Diachronic work particularly relevant to this book -- Evidence -- Summary and outline of the book -- A Usage-Based Approach to Sign Change -- Introduction -- Usage-based models -- Networks in a usage-based model -- Types of links -- Growth, obsolescence, and reconfiguration in a network -- Categories, gradience, and gradualness -- A case study: the development of the way-construction revisited -- Summary and some questions -- Grammatical Constructionalization -- Introduction -- Approaches to grammaticalization -- A constructional approach to directionality -- Rethinking degrammaticalization in terms of constructionalization -- A case study: the development of ALL- and WHAT-pseudo-clefts -- Summary -- Lexical Constructionalization -- Introduction -- On some characteristics of lexical constructions -- Some approaches to lexicalization -- Changing productivity, schematicity, and compositionality in lexical constructionalization -- The development of lexical (sub)schemas -- The development of ato…
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