On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change
Editors
In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In fact, the involvement of multiple source constructions is unexceptional. The phenomenon is observed in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. It is seen in language-internal change as well as in contact-induced change. Interactions may obtain between independent but historically related constructions as well as between historically unrelated constructions. The contributions to this volume, on the one hand, present specific case studies on changes involving multiple source constructions, in various domains of grammar and in a variety of languages. On the other hand, they discuss how such changes can be accommodated in current theoretical models of language.
Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 37:3 (2013).
Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 37:3 (2013).
[Benjamins Current Topics, 79] 2015. v, 227 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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On multiple source constructions in language changeFreek Van de Velde, Hendrik De Smet and Lobke Ghesquière | pp. 1–17
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Articles
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Multiple inheritance and constructional changeGraeme Trousdale | pp. 19–42
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An inquiry into unidirectionality as a foundational element of grammaticalization: On the role played by analogy and the synchronic grammar system in processes of language changeOlga Fischer | pp. 43–61
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Serving two masters: Form–function friction in syntactic amalgamsHendrik De Smet and Freek Van de Velde | pp. 63–94
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Multiple sources for the German scandal constructionLivio Gaeta | pp. 95–127
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Sources of auxiliation in the perfects of EuropeBridget Drinka | pp. 129–174
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Multiple roots of innovations in language contact: Evidence from morphological intermingling in contact between Ingrian Finnish and EstonianHelka Riionheimo | pp. 175–204
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Multiple sources and multiple causes multiply exploredBrian D. Joseph | pp. 205–221
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Subject index | pp. 223–224
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BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General