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21015784 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code CAL 18 Eb 15 9789027268617 06 10.1075/cal.18 13 2015009713 DG 002 02 01 CAL 02 1573-594X Constructional Approaches to Language 18 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Diachronic Construction Grammar</TitleText> 01 cal.18 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.18 1 B01 Jóhanna Barðdal Barðdal, Jóhanna Jóhanna Barðdal Ghent University 2 B01 Elena Smirnova Smirnova, Elena Elena Smirnova Leibniz University Hanover 3 B01 Lotte Sommerer Sommerer, Lotte Lotte Sommerer University of Vienna 4 B01 Spike Gildea Gildea, Spike Spike Gildea University of Oregon 01 eng 275 xi 263 LAN009000 v.2006 CFF 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.COGN Cognition and language 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.HL Historical linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 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. 05 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 05 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 05 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 05 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 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/cal.18.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027204400.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027204400.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/cal.18.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/cal.18.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/cal.18.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/cal.18.hb.png 10 01 JB code cal.18.001hol ix xii 4 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">In memory of Anna Siewierska</TitleText> 1 A01 Willem B. Hollmann Hollmann, Willem B. Willem B. Hollmann Lancaster University 10 01 JB code cal.18.01bar 1 50 50 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Diachronic Construction Grammar</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Epistemological context, basic assumptions and historical implications</Subtitle> 1 A01 Jóhanna Barðdal Barðdal, Jóhanna Jóhanna Barðdal Ghent University & University of Bergen 2 A01 Spike Gildea Gildea, Spike Spike Gildea University of Oregon & Collegium de Lyon 01 The main goal of this chapter is to discuss the value of the Construction Grammar framework to solving perceived problems with diachronic syntax. As such, one part of this chapter provides a condensed review of previous research in diachronic syntax, including a brief discussion of why many linguists have doubted the value of such work. While most of this early work did not emphasize the importance of constructions to our understanding of either synchronic or diachronic syntax, we do identify earlier examples of work for which the notion of construction was crucial, although not richly developed. The bulk of the chapter then proposes ways in which a constructional perspective/theory allows us to address some of these perceived problems with the study of diachronic syntax, hence providing a research context for the individual studies published in this volume. 10 01 JB code cal.18.02tra 51 80 30 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Toward a coherent account of grammatical constructionalization</TitleText> 1 A01 Elizabeth Closs Traugott Traugott, Elizabeth Closs Elizabeth Closs Traugott Stanford University 01 Diachronic construction grammar addresses a range of theoretical topics from lexicalization to grammaticalization. In most cases, a historical dimension has been added to a largely synchronic theory, or construction grammar has been seen as a tool for diachronic analysis. In the spirit of rethinking grammaticalization in construction grammar terms, the present chapter focuses on how a constructionalization approach can inform certain debates in the grammaticalization literature. The specific debates addressed are: (1) Is it possible to reconcile the two current main views of grammaticalization as (a) reduced form and increased dependency (Lehmann 1995; Haspelmath 2004), or (b) expansion of contexts (Himmelmann 2004)&#63; (2) Is there &#8220;pure&#8221; grammaticalization without analogy (Haspelmath 2004; Lehmann 2004)&#63; (3) What relative weight should be given to reanalysis and analogy (Fischer 2007)&#63; The answer to the first question is that from a constructional perspective the two approaches to grammaticalization can indeed be reconciled. With respect to the second and third questions, there can be no &#8220;pure&#8221; grammaticalization without analogy understood as a motivation (analogical thinking). Since reanalysis can occur independently of analogy and accompanies analogy understood as a mechanism (analogization), it encompasses more changes and is therefore primary. This approach is illustrated with a new look at the development of <i>BE going to</i> in English. 10 01 JB code cal.18.03smi 81 106 26 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Constructionalization and constructional change</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The role of context in the development of constructions</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elena Smirnova Smirnova, Elena Elena Smirnova Leibniz Universität Hannover 01 In recent constructional approaches to language change, the distinction between constructionalization and constructional changes has been made (cf. e.g. Rostila 2004; No&#235;l 2007; Traugott &#38; Trousdale 2013; Traugott this volume). The term <i>constructionalization</i> generally refers to the formation of new constructions, while diverse changes in existing constructions are labeled as <i>constructional changes</i>. This chapter focuses on the impact of context in the development of new constructions. It proposes to model constructionalization as a gradual accumulation of contextual restrictions followed by a structural reorganization of language material, whereby pieces of relevant contextual information are integrated into a new construction type. Two case studies and some further examples from the literature will demonstrate how the proposed model accounts for the development of new constructions from different domains of grammar. 10 01 JB code cal.18.04som 107 138 32 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The influence of constructions in grammaticalization</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">influence of constructions in grammaticalization</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Revisiting category emergence and the development of the definite article in English</Subtitle> 1 A01 Lotte Sommerer Sommerer, Lotte Lotte Sommerer University of Vienna, Vienna 01 In this chapter it will be argued that a proper understanding of grammaticalization has to take into account the driving force of lexically underspecified constructions. Using evidence from an extensive qualitative and quantitative corpus study in the<i> York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose</i> (YCOE), it will be suggested that the OE demonstrative <i>se</i> developed into the definite article due to the emergence of an abstract, syntactic, and lexically underspecified macro-construction with a determination slot for marking definiteness in early Old English. This slot becomes a functionally exploitable structural category itself, which leads to the recruitment of the demonstrative as a default slot filler (= definite article). What has traditionally been interpreted as a case of grammaticalization on the morphosyntactic level (OE demonstrative <i>se</i> &#62; ModE article <i>the</i>) is at the same time a case of &#8220;grammatical constructionalization.&#8221; The demonstrative does not grammaticalize on its own but in the context of an emerging schematic construction, which is formalized as the [[Xdeterminative]DETERMINATION &#43; [Zcn]HEAD]NP&#123;def&#125;&#8211; construction. The emergence of this construction is best explained by a usage-based, form-driven, analogical model of morphosyntactic change which takes into account the frequency of linguistic surface forms (i.e. concrete tokens) and the formal influence of taxonomically related constructions. 10 01 JB code cal.18.05fri 139 172 34 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Irregular morphology in regular syntactic patterns</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A case of constructional re-alignment</Subtitle> 1 A01 Mirjam Fried Fried, Mirjam Mirjam Fried Charles University, Prague 01 In exploring the multi-dimensional and incremental nature of grammatical change that emerges from the recurrent interaction between a form and its environment, this study demonstrates that a systematic examination of morphological irregularity can enrich our understanding of the anatomy of grammatical change. The empirical focus is the functional crystallization of a particular type of participial adjective (PA) in Old Czech, as manifested in morphologically irregular tokens of this category. The analysis of their behavior vis-&#224;-vis the regular PAs in comparable environments (clausal vs. adnominal constructions) shows that the two formation types are both sensitive to roughly the same set of features in developing a different functional status (secondary predicate vs. adnominal modifier), but each &#8216;compensates&#8217; for the mismatch between its morphology and each syntactic function in a characteristically different way. At the theoretical level, the analysis leads toward clarifying the content of the notion &#8216;constructionalization&#8217; as a hypothetically distinct type of change, and offers some thoughts on spelling out the role of constructions in grammatical reorganization. 10 01 JB code cal.18.06tor 173 212 40 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">On the relation between inheritance and change</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The Constructional Convergence and the Construction Network Reconfiguration Hypotheses</Subtitle> 1 A01 Tiago Timponi Torrent Torrent, Tiago Timponi Tiago Timponi Torrent Federal University of Juiz de Fora 01 This work addresses the relation between inheritance and change in the framework of Diachronic Construction Grammar. Given that change is commonly thought of as a linear unidirectional path and inheritance relations tend to be organized in a multidirectional radial fashion, I propose two hypotheses to account for the way new constructions emerge in a language and their relation to existing constructions. The Constructional Convergence Hypothesis claims that historically unrelated constructions can come to participate in the same formally and functionally motivated network of constructions. Such participation results from a series of changes that merge the form and meaning of the new construction into an already existing pattern. The Construction Network Reconfiguration Hypothesis then proposes that, as new constructions emerge, inheritance relations in construction networks change. The change drives speakers to propose new links between constructions regardless of linear relationships. To demonstrate the validity of this claim, I develop an analysis of constructions from the Para Infinitive family of constructions in Brazilian Portuguese, based on extensive data collection from the 13th to the 21st century. The analyses show that speakers seem to have reconfigured the Para Infinitive construction network as far back as the 13th century. Since then, the emergence of new patterns has led to the expansion of the network and the reconfiguration of its inheritance links. 10 01 JB code cal.18.07col 213 256 44 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Constructionalization and post-constructionalization</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The constructional semantics of the Dutch <i>krijgen</i>-passive from a diachronic perspective</Subtitle> 1 A01 Timothy Colleman Colleman, Timothy Timothy Colleman Ghent University 01 The grammatical literature on Dutch generally distinguishes two &#8220;passive&#8221; alternatives to the active double object construction, one of which, the so-called <i>krijgen</i>-passive is a fairly recent addition to the grammar, the earliest reported examples dating from around 1900. The present chapter addresses the early and subsequent history of this construction from a diachronic constructionist perspective. The first part of the chapter uses data from the 1900&#8211;1935 volumes of the Dutch periodical <i>De Gids </i>to reconstruct the lexical and semantic range of the <i>krijgen</i>-passive in its very first decades of life, in order to investigate which (semantic and/or morphological) subclasses of ditransitive verbs played a pathbreaking role in the development of this new construction from other <i>krijgen</i> &#43; participle constructions, i.e. in the constructionalization of the <i>krijgen</i>-passive. The second part of the chapter looks into post-constructionalization semantic change, i.e. into the subsequent expansion of the newly emerged construction towards more sub-classes of ditransitive verbs, on the basis of data from the diachronic CONDIV-corpus (1950s to 1990s). Contra recent non-constructionist proposals, it will be argued that the <i>krijgen</i>-passive is an argument structure construction in its own right, with a semantic dynamics of its own, and that the apparently random constraints on its present-day distribution are less puzzling when viewed against the background of the construction&#8217;s genesis and subsequent semantic expansion. 10 01 JB code cal.18.08ind 257 260 4 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index Terms</TitleText> 10 01 JB code cal.18.09lan 261 262 2 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Languages Index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code cal.18.10con 263 264 2 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Constructions Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20150730 2015 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027204400 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 95.00 EUR R 01 00 80.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 143.00 USD S 698015783 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code CAL 18 Hb 15 9789027204400 13 2015004233 BB 01 CAL 02 1573-594X Constructional Approaches to Language 18 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Diachronic Construction Grammar</TitleText> 01 cal.18 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.18 1 B01 Jóhanna Barðdal Barðdal, Jóhanna Jóhanna Barðdal Ghent University 2 B01 Elena Smirnova Smirnova, Elena Elena Smirnova Leibniz University Hanover 3 B01 Lotte Sommerer Sommerer, Lotte Lotte Sommerer University of Vienna 4 B01 Spike Gildea Gildea, Spike Spike Gildea University of Oregon 01 eng 275 xi 263 LAN009000 v.2006 CFF 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.COGN Cognition and language 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.HL Historical linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 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. 05 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 05 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 05 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 05 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 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/cal.18.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027204400.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027204400.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/cal.18.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/cal.18.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/cal.18.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/cal.18.hb.png 10 01 JB code cal.18.001hol ix xii 4 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">In memory of Anna Siewierska</TitleText> 1 A01 Willem B. Hollmann Hollmann, Willem B. Willem B. Hollmann Lancaster University 10 01 JB code cal.18.01bar 1 50 50 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Diachronic Construction Grammar</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Epistemological context, basic assumptions and historical implications</Subtitle> 1 A01 Jóhanna Barðdal Barðdal, Jóhanna Jóhanna Barðdal Ghent University & University of Bergen 2 A01 Spike Gildea Gildea, Spike Spike Gildea University of Oregon & Collegium de Lyon 01 The main goal of this chapter is to discuss the value of the Construction Grammar framework to solving perceived problems with diachronic syntax. As such, one part of this chapter provides a condensed review of previous research in diachronic syntax, including a brief discussion of why many linguists have doubted the value of such work. While most of this early work did not emphasize the importance of constructions to our understanding of either synchronic or diachronic syntax, we do identify earlier examples of work for which the notion of construction was crucial, although not richly developed. The bulk of the chapter then proposes ways in which a constructional perspective/theory allows us to address some of these perceived problems with the study of diachronic syntax, hence providing a research context for the individual studies published in this volume. 10 01 JB code cal.18.02tra 51 80 30 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Toward a coherent account of grammatical constructionalization</TitleText> 1 A01 Elizabeth Closs Traugott Traugott, Elizabeth Closs Elizabeth Closs Traugott Stanford University 01 Diachronic construction grammar addresses a range of theoretical topics from lexicalization to grammaticalization. In most cases, a historical dimension has been added to a largely synchronic theory, or construction grammar has been seen as a tool for diachronic analysis. In the spirit of rethinking grammaticalization in construction grammar terms, the present chapter focuses on how a constructionalization approach can inform certain debates in the grammaticalization literature. The specific debates addressed are: (1) Is it possible to reconcile the two current main views of grammaticalization as (a) reduced form and increased dependency (Lehmann 1995; Haspelmath 2004), or (b) expansion of contexts (Himmelmann 2004)&#63; (2) Is there &#8220;pure&#8221; grammaticalization without analogy (Haspelmath 2004; Lehmann 2004)&#63; (3) What relative weight should be given to reanalysis and analogy (Fischer 2007)&#63; The answer to the first question is that from a constructional perspective the two approaches to grammaticalization can indeed be reconciled. With respect to the second and third questions, there can be no &#8220;pure&#8221; grammaticalization without analogy understood as a motivation (analogical thinking). Since reanalysis can occur independently of analogy and accompanies analogy understood as a mechanism (analogization), it encompasses more changes and is therefore primary. This approach is illustrated with a new look at the development of <i>BE going to</i> in English. 10 01 JB code cal.18.03smi 81 106 26 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Constructionalization and constructional change</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The role of context in the development of constructions</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elena Smirnova Smirnova, Elena Elena Smirnova Leibniz Universität Hannover 01 In recent constructional approaches to language change, the distinction between constructionalization and constructional changes has been made (cf. e.g. Rostila 2004; No&#235;l 2007; Traugott &#38; Trousdale 2013; Traugott this volume). The term <i>constructionalization</i> generally refers to the formation of new constructions, while diverse changes in existing constructions are labeled as <i>constructional changes</i>. This chapter focuses on the impact of context in the development of new constructions. It proposes to model constructionalization as a gradual accumulation of contextual restrictions followed by a structural reorganization of language material, whereby pieces of relevant contextual information are integrated into a new construction type. Two case studies and some further examples from the literature will demonstrate how the proposed model accounts for the development of new constructions from different domains of grammar. 10 01 JB code cal.18.04som 107 138 32 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The influence of constructions in grammaticalization</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">influence of constructions in grammaticalization</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Revisiting category emergence and the development of the definite article in English</Subtitle> 1 A01 Lotte Sommerer Sommerer, Lotte Lotte Sommerer University of Vienna, Vienna 01 In this chapter it will be argued that a proper understanding of grammaticalization has to take into account the driving force of lexically underspecified constructions. Using evidence from an extensive qualitative and quantitative corpus study in the<i> York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English Prose</i> (YCOE), it will be suggested that the OE demonstrative <i>se</i> developed into the definite article due to the emergence of an abstract, syntactic, and lexically underspecified macro-construction with a determination slot for marking definiteness in early Old English. This slot becomes a functionally exploitable structural category itself, which leads to the recruitment of the demonstrative as a default slot filler (= definite article). What has traditionally been interpreted as a case of grammaticalization on the morphosyntactic level (OE demonstrative <i>se</i> &#62; ModE article <i>the</i>) is at the same time a case of &#8220;grammatical constructionalization.&#8221; The demonstrative does not grammaticalize on its own but in the context of an emerging schematic construction, which is formalized as the [[Xdeterminative]DETERMINATION &#43; [Zcn]HEAD]NP&#123;def&#125;&#8211; construction. The emergence of this construction is best explained by a usage-based, form-driven, analogical model of morphosyntactic change which takes into account the frequency of linguistic surface forms (i.e. concrete tokens) and the formal influence of taxonomically related constructions. 10 01 JB code cal.18.05fri 139 172 34 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Irregular morphology in regular syntactic patterns</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">A case of constructional re-alignment</Subtitle> 1 A01 Mirjam Fried Fried, Mirjam Mirjam Fried Charles University, Prague 01 In exploring the multi-dimensional and incremental nature of grammatical change that emerges from the recurrent interaction between a form and its environment, this study demonstrates that a systematic examination of morphological irregularity can enrich our understanding of the anatomy of grammatical change. The empirical focus is the functional crystallization of a particular type of participial adjective (PA) in Old Czech, as manifested in morphologically irregular tokens of this category. The analysis of their behavior vis-&#224;-vis the regular PAs in comparable environments (clausal vs. adnominal constructions) shows that the two formation types are both sensitive to roughly the same set of features in developing a different functional status (secondary predicate vs. adnominal modifier), but each &#8216;compensates&#8217; for the mismatch between its morphology and each syntactic function in a characteristically different way. At the theoretical level, the analysis leads toward clarifying the content of the notion &#8216;constructionalization&#8217; as a hypothetically distinct type of change, and offers some thoughts on spelling out the role of constructions in grammatical reorganization. 10 01 JB code cal.18.06tor 173 212 40 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">On the relation between inheritance and change</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The Constructional Convergence and the Construction Network Reconfiguration Hypotheses</Subtitle> 1 A01 Tiago Timponi Torrent Torrent, Tiago Timponi Tiago Timponi Torrent Federal University of Juiz de Fora 01 This work addresses the relation between inheritance and change in the framework of Diachronic Construction Grammar. Given that change is commonly thought of as a linear unidirectional path and inheritance relations tend to be organized in a multidirectional radial fashion, I propose two hypotheses to account for the way new constructions emerge in a language and their relation to existing constructions. The Constructional Convergence Hypothesis claims that historically unrelated constructions can come to participate in the same formally and functionally motivated network of constructions. Such participation results from a series of changes that merge the form and meaning of the new construction into an already existing pattern. The Construction Network Reconfiguration Hypothesis then proposes that, as new constructions emerge, inheritance relations in construction networks change. The change drives speakers to propose new links between constructions regardless of linear relationships. To demonstrate the validity of this claim, I develop an analysis of constructions from the Para Infinitive family of constructions in Brazilian Portuguese, based on extensive data collection from the 13th to the 21st century. The analyses show that speakers seem to have reconfigured the Para Infinitive construction network as far back as the 13th century. Since then, the emergence of new patterns has led to the expansion of the network and the reconfiguration of its inheritance links. 10 01 JB code cal.18.07col 213 256 44 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Constructionalization and post-constructionalization</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">The constructional semantics of the Dutch <i>krijgen</i>-passive from a diachronic perspective</Subtitle> 1 A01 Timothy Colleman Colleman, Timothy Timothy Colleman Ghent University 01 The grammatical literature on Dutch generally distinguishes two &#8220;passive&#8221; alternatives to the active double object construction, one of which, the so-called <i>krijgen</i>-passive is a fairly recent addition to the grammar, the earliest reported examples dating from around 1900. The present chapter addresses the early and subsequent history of this construction from a diachronic constructionist perspective. The first part of the chapter uses data from the 1900&#8211;1935 volumes of the Dutch periodical <i>De Gids </i>to reconstruct the lexical and semantic range of the <i>krijgen</i>-passive in its very first decades of life, in order to investigate which (semantic and/or morphological) subclasses of ditransitive verbs played a pathbreaking role in the development of this new construction from other <i>krijgen</i> &#43; participle constructions, i.e. in the constructionalization of the <i>krijgen</i>-passive. The second part of the chapter looks into post-constructionalization semantic change, i.e. into the subsequent expansion of the newly emerged construction towards more sub-classes of ditransitive verbs, on the basis of data from the diachronic CONDIV-corpus (1950s to 1990s). Contra recent non-constructionist proposals, it will be argued that the <i>krijgen</i>-passive is an argument structure construction in its own right, with a semantic dynamics of its own, and that the apparently random constraints on its present-day distribution are less puzzling when viewed against the background of the construction&#8217;s genesis and subsequent semantic expansion. 10 01 JB code cal.18.08ind 257 260 4 Article 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index Terms</TitleText> 10 01 JB code cal.18.09lan 261 262 2 Article 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Languages Index</TitleText> 10 01 JB code cal.18.10con 263 264 2 Article 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Constructions Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20150730 2015 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 635 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 11 22 01 02 JB 1 00 95.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 100.70 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 22 02 02 JB 1 00 80.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 22 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 143.00 USD