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In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics.
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Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Martin Hilpert |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Release |
: 2021-09-13 |
File |
: 291 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004446793 |
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In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics. 0Also available in Open Access.
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Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Martin Hilpert |
Publisher |
: Distinguished Lectures in Cogn |
Release |
: 2021-08-22 |
File |
: 350 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004446788 |
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How do you get from ‘after all those movies’ to ‘I went to a movie after all’?
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Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Elizabeth Closs Traugott |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Release |
: 2022-01-31 |
File |
: 539 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004507050 |
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This volume is intended as a celebration of Kristin Davidse’s work and its impact within the broad traditions of cognitive, functional and usage-based grammars. Reflecting this wide functionalist lens, the contributions develop ideas central to Neo-Firthian theories of grammar (in particular, Semiotic Grammar and SFL), the Prague School, Functional Discourse Grammar (FDG), and broader cognitive-functional (e.g. Construction Grammar) and usage-based approaches (e.g. Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization theory, corpus-based sociolinguistics). The range of topics addressed makes the volume particularly relevant to linguists investigating information structure, construction grammar, functional discourse grammar, spatial deixis, pronoun and case systems, and/or the semantics of verbal constructions.
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Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Caroline Gentens |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Release |
: 2023-02-15 |
File |
: 315 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789027254498 |
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In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.
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: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: William Croft |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Release |
: 2020-09-25 |
File |
: 321 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004363533 |
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The binomial noun phrase, or of-binomial, is an important phenomenon in the English language. Defined as a noun phrase that contains two related nouns, linked by the preposition of, examples include a hell of a day and a beast of a storm. This pioneering book provides the first extensive study of the evaluative binominal noun phrases (EBNP) in English, exploring the syntactic rules that govern them, and the (functional) semantic and pragmatic links between the two nouns. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods, corpus data, and two different theoretical approaches (Construction Grammar and Functional Discourse Grammar), it argues that the EBNP now functions as a stage in a grammaticalization path that begins with a prototypical N+PP construction, continues with the head-classifier, and ends with two new of-binominal constructions: the evaluative modifier and binominal intensifier. Comprehensive in its scope, it is essential reading for researchers in syntax, semantics, and English corpus linguistics.
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Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Elnora ten Wolde |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2023-05-31 |
File |
: 331 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108924221 |
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Taking a multi-theoretical approach, this book offers the first in-depth study of the function and development of evaluative of-binomials.
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: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Elnora ten Wolde |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2023-05-31 |
File |
: 331 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108830959 |
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Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must, have to, should, ought to, need, need to) and the possibility side (can, may, could, might, be able to). They therefore constitute excellent test ground to apply and compare different methodologies that can lay bare the factors that drive the speaker’s choice of modal verb. This book is not merely concerned with a purely grammatical description of the use of modal verbs, but aims at advancing our understanding of lexical and grammatical units in general and of linguistic methodologies to explore these. It thus involves a genuine effort to compare, assess and combine a variety of approaches. It complements the leading descriptive qualitative work on modal verbs by testing a diverse range of quantitative methods, while not ignoring qualitative issues pertaining to the semantics-pragmatics interface. Starting from a critical assessment of what constitutes the meaning of modal verbs, different types of empirical studies (usage-based, data-driven and experimental), drawing considerably on the same data sets, shows how method triangulation can contribute to an enhanced understanding. Due attention is also given to individual variation as well as the degree to which modals can predict L2 proficiency level.
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Genre |
: Foreign Language Study |
Author |
: Ilse Depraetere |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Release |
: 2023-04-27 |
File |
: 282 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783110734157 |
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This book explores the evolution of modal constructions of necessity and obligation in New Englishes. Focusing on Singapore English, analysis of corpus data reveals lower levels of grammaticalization compared to its lexifier, British English. This trend is explained through the lenses of a “pan-stratist” model, which considers a spectrum of forces influencing the dynamics of contact. On the one hand, cognitive mechanisms seem to favour the selection of less grammaticalized (and more transparent) variants from the lexifier. On the other hand, the substrate is positioned as a background force, actively contributing to the selection of new material to address functional gaps in the system.
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Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Carmelo Alessandro Basile |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Release |
: 2024-09-02 |
File |
: 302 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783111488752 |
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Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, i.e. form-meaning pairs at various levels of abstraction and complexity, as the basic units of language. This Element gives an overview of the origin and the current state of the art of constructionist approaches, focusing, on the one hand, on basic concepts like the notion of 'constructions', while at the same time offering an in-depth discussion of current research trends and open questions. It discusses the commonalities and differences between the major constructionist approaches, the organization of constructional networks as well as ongoing research on linguistic creativity, multimodality and individual differences. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Genre |
: Language Arts & Disciplines |
Author |
: Tobias Ungerer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2023-07-31 |
File |
: 150 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781009308755 |