Diachronic Construction Grammar
Editors
| Ghent University
| Leibniz University Hanover
| University of Vienna
| University of Oregon
Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and with what implications for the language system as a whole? This volume offers a broad introduction to the confluence of Construction Grammar and historical syntax, and also detailed case studies of various instances of syntactic change modeled within Construction Grammar. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar as a theory is particularly well suited for modeling historical changes in morphosyntax, and it also documents challenging new phenomena that require a theoretical account within any competing framework of syntactic change.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 18] 2015. xi, 263 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
|
ix–xii
|
|
|
1–50
|
|
|
51–80
|
|
|
81–106
|
|
|
107–138
|
|
|
139–172
|
|
|
173–212
|
|
|
213–256
|
|
|
Index Terms
|
257–260
|
|
Languages Index
|
261–262
|
|
Constructions Index
|
263–264
|
“The volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of constructional approaches to diachrony. Uniting papers of a more theoretical stance with indepth case studies, its focus is on typical examples of grammaticalizating changes and theoretical questions pertaining to this type of language change. The introduction surveys the development of constructional diachronic approaches and positions the contributions of the volume in this rapidly diversifying field. The book is an excellent read for everybody interested in modern diachronic lingustics in general and grammaticalization and construction grammar in particular.”
Gabriele Diewald, University of Hannover
“This is a really valuable book for researchers interested in usage-based approaches to language change. Each contribution combines theoretical insights with diverse empirical data, and the collection as a whole provides a rich source of material for understanding how construction grammar can account for fundamental issues in historical linguistics. The volume identifies both areas of common ground, and points of difference, which will hopefully lead to new research trajectories. All in all, it provides a state-of-the-art account of principles of diachronic construction grammar.”
Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh
“The volume adds interesting and important insights to the emerging field of studying language change from a constructionist’s point of view. The book is a good mix of theoretical discussion and empirical evidence and offers a range of different approaches and methods.”
Meike Pentrel, Osnabrück University, in Language Dynamics and Change 7 (2017) pp. 141–146
“Diachronic Construction Grammar is an exciting new area of cognitive-functional linguistics that connects ideas from grammaticalization theory, cognitive linguistics, and constructional approaches to grammar. This collection of articles, all written by well-known experts from the field, charts this new territory with case studies from Czech, Dutch, English, German, Brazilian Portuguese, and other languages. The book thus provides a much-needed overview and leads the way towards further investigations into the diachrony of constructions.”
Martin Hilpert, Université de Neuchâtel
Cited by
Cited by other publications
No author info given
2017.
In Pivotal Constructions in Chinese [Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 8],
No author info given
2019.
In Typology of Pluractional Constructions in the Languages of the World [Typological Studies in Language, 125],
Andersson, Peter & Kristian Blensenius
2018. Matches and mismatches in Swedish [gå och V] ‘go/walk and V’.
Constructions and Frames 10:2 ► pp. 147 ff.
Beuls, Katrien & Remi van Trijp
2016. Computational construction grammar and constructional change.
Belgian Journal of Linguistics 30 ► pp. 1 ff.
Cloutier, Robert, Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Radosław Święciński, Gea Dreschler, Sune Gregersen, Beáta Gyuris, Kathryn Allan, Maggie Scott, Lieselotte Anderwald, Alexander Kautzsch, Sven Leuckert, Tihana Kraš, Alessia Cogo, Tian Gan, Ida Parise & Jessica Norledge
2018. IEnglish Language.
The Year's Work in English Studies 97:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Colleman, Timothy
2016. A reflection on constructionalization and constructional borrowing, inspired by an emerging Dutch replica of the ‘time’-away construction.
Belgian Journal of Linguistics 30 ► pp. 91 ff.
Combettes, Bernard, Mathilde Dargnat, F. Neveu, G. Bergounioux, M.-H. Côté, J.-M. Fournier, L. Hriba & S. Prévost
2016. Grammaire de constructions et diachronie : Intensivité et concession.
SHS Web of Conferences 27 ► pp. 04001 ff.
Coussé, Evie, Peter Andersson & Joel Olofsson
2018.
In Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar [Constructional Approaches to Language, 21],
► pp. 3 ff.
Dux, Ryan
2018.
In Constructions in Contact [Constructional Approaches to Language, 24],
► pp. 211 ff.
Fischer, Olga
2018.
In New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change [Studies in Language Companion Series, 202],
► pp. 75 ff.
Giacalone Ramat, Anna
2018. Degrees of grammaticalization and measure constructions in Italian.
Revue Romane
Granvik, Anton
2018.
In Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar [Constructional Approaches to Language, 21],
► pp. 205 ff.
Hieber, Daniel W.
2018.
In Category Change from a Constructional Perspective [Constructional Approaches to Language, 20],
► pp. 15 ff.
Hilpert, Martin
2017.
In Exploring Future Paths for Historical Sociolinguistics [Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 7],
► pp. 217 ff.
Hilpert, Martin
2018.
In Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar [Constructional Approaches to Language, 21],
► pp. 21 ff.
Norde, Muriel & Kristel Van Goethem
2018.
In The Construction of Words [Studies in Morphology, 4],
► pp. 475 ff.
Noël, Dirk
2016. For a radically usage-based diachronic construction grammar.
Belgian Journal of Linguistics 30 ► pp. 39 ff.
Noël, Dirk
2019. The decline of the Deontic nci construction in Late Modern English.
Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1 ► pp. 22 ff.
TRAUGOTT, ELIZABETH CLOSS
2017. ‘Insubordination’ in the light of the Uniformitarian Principle.
English Language and Linguistics 21:2 ► pp. 289 ff.
Trousdale, Graeme
2018.
In Category Change from a Constructional Perspective [Constructional Approaches to Language, 20],
► pp. 291 ff.
Zhan, Fangqiong & Elizabeth Closs Traugott
2019. The development of the Chinese copula shì construction.
Functions of Language 26:2 ► pp. 139 ff.
Zhu, Bing & Kaoru Horie
2018.
In New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change [Studies in Language Companion Series, 202],
► pp. 361 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 14 september 2019. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Subjects
BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2015004233