Category Change from a Constructional Perspective
Editors
Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties, e.g. abrupt versus gradual changes, morphological versus syntactic changes, or context-independent versus context-sensitive changes. The purpose of this collection of papers is to explore the concepts of linguistic category and category change from the perspective of Construction Grammar. Using data from a variety of languages, the authors address a number of themes that are central to current theorizing about category change, such as the question of whether or not categories should be considered discrete entities, how new categories arise, or whether category change can be considered as the emergence of a new construction, i.e. a new form-meaning pairing. The novel approach advanced in this volume will be of interest to historical linguists as well as to general linguists working on the nature of linguistic categories.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 20] 2018. vii, 314 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. vii
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Part I. Introduction
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Chapter 1. Category change from a constructional perspective: IntroductionKristel Van Goethem, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede | pp. 3–11
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Part II. Category genesis: The creation of new categories
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Chapter 2. Category genesis in Chitimacha: A constructional approachDaniel W. Hieber | pp. 15–46
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Chapter 3. Derivation without category change: A network-based analysis of diminutive prefixoids in DutchMuriel Norde and Caroline Morris | pp. 47–90
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Part III. Category change in syntactic constructions
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Chapter 4. Grammaticalization, host-class expansion and category changeEvie Coussé | pp. 93–117
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Chapter 5. Why would anyone take long? Word classes and Construction Grammar in the history of longDavid Denison | pp. 119–148
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Chapter 6. Category change in the English gerund: Tangled web or fine-tuned constructional network?Lauren Fonteyn and Liesbet Heyvaert | pp. 149–177
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Chapter 7. The emergence of a new adverbial downtoner: Constructional change and constructionalization of Dutch [ver van X] and [verre van X] ‘far from X’Kristel Van Goethem, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Hendrik De Smet | pp. 179–205
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Part IV. Category change in morphological constructions
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Chapter 8. Category change in construction morphologyGeert Booij and Jenny Audring | pp. 209–228
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Chapter 9. Evaluative morphology in German, Dutch and Swedish: Constructional Networks and the Loci of ChangeMalte Battefeld, Torsten Leuschner and Gudrun Rawoens | pp. 229–262
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Chapter 10. Constructional change on the contentful-procedural gradient: The case of the -idz(o) construction in GrikoNikos Koutsoukos | pp. 263–288
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Part V. Discussion
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Chapter 11. Change in category membership from the perspective of construction grammar: A commentaryGraeme Trousdale | pp. 291–308
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Construction index | p. 309
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Subject index | pp. 311–314
“[T]he collection at hand is a strong contribution to the field due to the fact that the reader gets an excellent overview of terms and issues that are currently being debated when looking at category change from a constructional perspective. All contributions focus on theorizing rather than mere ‘data crunching’ and successfully show that a constructional approach to categories and category change is a fruitful endeavor.”
Lotte Sommerer, University of Vienna, in Constructions and Frames Volume 11:2 (2019)
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2021.
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Fried, Mirjam
2021. Discourse-referential patterns as a network of grammatical constructions.
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la Roi, Ezra
2022. Weaving together the diverse threads of category change.
Diachronica 39:2 ► pp. 159 ff.
Norde, Muriel & Kristel Van Goethem
2018.
In The Construction of Words [Studies in Morphology, 4],
► pp. 475 ff.
Noël, Dirk
2019. The decline of the Deontic nci construction in Late Modern English.
Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1 ► pp. 22 ff.
Smirnova, Elena & Lotte Sommerer
2020.
In Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar [Constructional Approaches to Language, 27],
► pp. 2 ff.
Smirnova, Elena & Vanessa Stöber
2022. Verbo-Nominal Constructions with kommen ‘come’ in German.
Constructions and Frames 14:1 ► pp. 121 ff.
SOMMERER, LOTTE & KLAUS HOFMANN
2021. Constructional competition and network reconfiguration: investigatingsum(e)in Old, Middle and Early Modern English.
English Language and Linguistics 25:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009020 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Morphology