Subject index

• ablaut 5, 54

• abrupt 5, 7, 202, 264, 296

• actualization 167, 180, 184

• adjectival complements 195–196, 200

• adposition 127, 140

• adreditive 19, 27

• Adv see adverb

• adverb 38, 119–122, 125–127, 129–131, 134–135, 137–138, 140–141, 185, 188, 200, 267–268, 303

• adverbial downtoner 5, 179, 181–182, 193, 195–196, 199–201

• affix 54, 212, 230, 272, 274, 277, 300
  • affixation 5, 48
  • affixoid 6, 48, 64, 215, 230–232, 236, 247, 295, 298 ; see also prefixoid see also suffixoid

• Aktionsart22

• amelioration231

• amplifier 181–183

• analogy 15–16, 23, 33, 36–37, 39, 41–42, 55, 64, 125, 128–129, 136, 144, 202, 273, 276, 280, 282, 292, 296, 298–299

• andative 19, 26–28

• approximator182

• attributive 5, 56, 126, 189, 196, 200, 231, 235, 238–239, 242, 245–246, 250, 252–253, 255, 257
  • attributive adjective 189, 196, 238

• auxiliary 5, 35, 93–94, 96, 98, 100–101, 196, 293–294

• back-formation4

• bound root62

• bridging context 5, 102, 157, 196

• category change 3–8, 15, 42, 47, 93–95, 164, 179, 181, 199–202, 209–215, 217, 224–226, 263, 265–267, 282, 292–293, 295–296, 305

• category genesis 8, 15, 35–37, 42, 292, 298, 306

• category shift see category change

• circumlative19

• clipping 162, 233–234, 248–249, 253, 257

• coercion 8, 52, 202, 209, 213–216, 224, 226, 233–234, 238–239, 294–295
  • coercion-by-override 202, 209

• cognitive grammar112

• collocates 93–94, 101, 106–112, 293, 302

• complementation pattern 132, 181, 185, 188, 191–192, 194–195, 200, 302–303

• compositionality 17, 20–21, 40, 143, 169–170, 199–201, 279, 292, 303–305

• compound 4, 31, 47–48, 51, 56–57, 62, 64, 68, 70, 215–216, 229–231, 233–239, 242–245, 247–249, 252–253, 257–258, 275
  • compound cohesion 235, 242, 258
  • compounding 48, 51, 229–230, 237, 264, 275

• compromiser182

• conceptual image persistence 107–110

• Construction Grammar 6–8, 16, 42, 51–52, 93–96, 119–120, 139–140, 149, 264, 291–292, 294–295, 297, 299, 302 ; see also diachronic Construction Grammar

• Construction Morphology 49–50, 54, 209, 212, 217, 219, 232, 236, 299

• constructional change 15, 35, 38, 40–41, 141, 153, 163, 165, 168, 171, 179, 181, 199, 200, 202, 263, 265, 279–280, 282, 292, 294, 298–299, 302–305

• constructional idiom 236–238, 280–281

• constructional network 7, 47, 49, 51–52, 180, 229, 231–232, 254, 299, 306

• constructional schema 4, 35, 37, 40, 153, 220, 280, 294

• construction-dependent morphology see Construction Morphology

• constructionalization 7–8, 15–16, 35, 37–42, 152–153, 157, 164–165, 168–171, 179, 181, 199–200, 202, 231, 258, 265, 278–279, 292, 302–305 ; see also grammatical constructionalization see also lexical constructionalization see also pre-constructionalization process

• contentful-procedural gradient 169, 263, 265, 279, 282

• context 5–8, 30, 42, 59, 65, 70, 94–95, 101–103, 124, 136–137, 152, 155, 157, 162–163, 189–190, 195–196, 201, 226, 230, 247, 249, 258, 269, 278, 294, 305
  • context expansion294
  • context-dependency 5, 7–8, 226
  • context-sensitivity 5, 7–8, 201

• conversion 4–5, 190, 202, 209, 212, 222–226, 233, 306 ; see also morphological conversion

• copula 195–196, 239

• debonding 69, 229, 233–235, 239, 248, 257–258

• decategorialization 7, 119–120, 137, 140, 144–146

• defective adjective 229, 245–246, 254, 258

• defectiveness8

• degrammaticalization 6, 233

• degree adverb 179–184, 189, 200–202, 295, 302

• derivation 5, 47, 54, 164, 230, 263–266, 265, 269–270, 274–280, 282, 295, 301
  • derivational affixation 5, 48

• detransitivizer 19, 31–32, 34

• diachronic Construction Grammar 7, 16, 42, 292

• differentiation 197–198

• diminisher 181–182

• diminutive 8, 47–51, 53–70, 300

• directionality 6, 8–9, 37

• dislative 19, 31

• distal reditive 19, 27

• distributional behaviour198

• downtoner 5, 8, 65, 179–187, 191–201, 302

• see also adverbial downtoner

• downtoning 47, 67, 70, 180, 189, 199–202, 302

• embedded productivity 209, 212, 220, 223, 225–226

• emphatic negation192

• evaluation 212, 230–231, 234–235, 238, 247, 250, 254, 258

• evaluative 8, 202, 212, 215–217, 229–239, 242–250, 252–258, 295, 298–299
  • evaluative compound 229, 236–239, 244
  • evaluative morphology 229–230
  • evaluative prefixoid 230–238, 250, 258

• exaptation279

• exbraciation 193, 201

• exemplar 52, 55, 98, 100, 103–105, 107, 111, 140

• expansion 8, 38, 93–96, 99–102, 106, 108–111, 113, 180, 195, 199–202, 277, 293–294, 305 ; see also host-class expansion

• formal change 7, 150–151, 190, 200, 302, 304–305

• form-meaning pairing 7, 40, 163, 165, 278

• gerund 8, 127, 139, 149–155, 157–173, 180, 295–296, 303–305 ; see also nominal gerund see also verbal gerund

• gradable 68, 181–182, 193
  • gradable adjective182

• gradience 3–4, 102, 107–108, 164, 169, 202, 263–265, 278–279, 282, 292, 302 ; see also intersective gradience see also subsective gradience

• gradualness 4–5, 7–8, 35, 42, 102, 139, 153, 165, 168–169, 199–200, 202, 258, 263, 265, 278–280, 282, 292, 296–299, 306

• grammatical constructionalization 7, 169, 202

• grammaticalization 5–6, 8, 35, 93–96, 100, 106–108, 112–113, 120, 137–138, 140, 230, 263–265, 267, 273–279

• hapax 30, 57, 70

• host class expansion277

• hybrid construction 172, 278, 280, 282

• imperative 19, 33–34

• inceptive 19, 29

• inchoative 3, 19, 22, 29, 214

• infinitival phrase 195–196, 199–200

• infinitive 170, 192, 194–195, 201, 222–224

• inflection 215, 217, 230–231, 233, 236, 245–246, 258, 263–267, 270, 274–280, 282, 295
  • inflectional class marker 275, 277, 282

• inheritance 52–54, 66, 70, 173, 201, 233, 280–282, 292–293, 299–300
  • inheritance hierarchy 280-282
  • inheritance link 52–54, 66, 70, 173

• intensification 47, 247, 255

• intensifier 6, 48, 56, 59, 64, 69, 136, 229, 247–250, 253, 257–258

• intensity 101, 183

• internal reconstruction 16–17, 42

• interparadigmatic link 54, 70, 265, 272

• intersective gradience 4, 164, 202

• intraparadigmatic link 54, 69, 300

• language change 6, 8, 55, 201, 243, 265, 276, 278, 291–292, 297, 301, 306

• lateral link 51–55, 66–67, 70, 292–293, 300

• lexical category 4, 93, 236, 266–268, 270, 298

• lexical constructionalization 169, 202, 231, 304–305

• lexical integrity 209, 219

• lexicalization 6, 20–21, 40, 211

• lexicon 3, 136, 226, 232, 237–238, 255, 258, 264, 278 ; see also mental lexicon

• loan prefix 229, 232, 250, 252–254, 257–258

• mental lexicon 232, 237–238

• metaphoric meaning 107, 179–181, 184–187, 189, 191–195, 198–200, 215, 302, 305

• metaphorical distance 179–181, 184–187, 189, 192–193, 200, 302

• micro-construction 41–42, 50, 52–55, 64, 66–70, 141–142, 144, 200–201, 278, 280, 298–301, 303–304

• minimizer182

• morphological construction 8, 49, 54, 153, 209, 212–214, 226, 294

• morphological conversion 202, 305

• multi-word unit 8, 201

• negative maximizer182

• negative polarity124

• neoanalysis 165, 167–168, 280, 298, 303

• network 7, 36, 47, 49–54, 66–67, 70, 149, 153, 165–166, 168–169, 171–173, 180–181, 200–201, 229, 231–232, 250, 254–256, 280–281, 292–293, 298–300, 302, 306 ; see also constructional network

• NG see nominal gerund

• niche 224, 293–296, 302

• nominal gerund 149, 151–153, 157–165, 166–173, 304

• nominalization 49, 54, 149, 154, 212, 219–220

• nominalizer 19, 28, 34

• non-assertive124

• non-directionality 6, 8

• non-nominal complement198

• noun phrase 4, 26, 38, 70, 121, 123, 128–132, 134–135, 137, 139, 141–145, 149–151, 153–157, 164, 170–171, 180, 185, 188, 192, 194, 199–200, 211, 218, 297, 304–306

• NP see noun phrase

• open slot 95–97, 99–101, 106, 110, 113, 294

• orthography 18, 242–243, 272

• override 202, 209–212, 226

• parent morph 230, 236

• particle verb 17, 209, 224

• part of speech 3, 54, 62, 67, 96

• past participle 94, 96, 98, 100, 102–104, 110, 196, 198, 294

• pejoration231

• perfect construction 93, 96, 101–102, 108, 294

• postpositive 126–127

• pragmatic 38–39, 47–48, 65–66, 68, 70, 101, 119, 124, 139–140, 142, 145, 151, 168, 172, 184, 192, 194, 305
  • pragmatic extension194
  • pragmatic inference192
  • pragmatic strengthening184

• pre-constructionalization process200

• predicative 6, 56, 126, 141, 183, 189, 196, 200, 229–231, 233–235, 239, 244, 246, 250, 253, 255, 257–258, 297–298

• prefix 17, 58, 62, 64, 214, 232, 252–253
  • prefixoid 6, 8, 47–51, 55–70, 229–238, 244, 247, 250, 252, 254, 257–258, 300

• preposition 58, 119, 127–129, 136, 139–141, 162, 180, 182–183, 189, 199–201, 210–211, 220, 236, 295, 297, 302–303
  • prepositional phrase 131, 201, 223, 294

• preverb 8, 15–24, 26–28, 30–33, 35–42, 293, 298, 301, 303–305

• procedural construction 263, 279, 282

• productivity 70, 110–111, 168–170, 190, 201, 209, 212, 220, 223–226, 232, 237, 247, 267, 272, 279, 292, 303–304 ; see also embedded productivity

• Pron see pronoun

• pronoun 5, 33, 157, 182––189, 192, 194, 198

• prototype theory 4, 93–100

• prototypical core 93, 99, 101–102, 108–111, 113

• proximal reditive19

• qualifying prefixoid 235, 238, 250, 252

• reanalysis 5, 16, 28, 33–38, 40–41, 150, 164, 167–168, 180, 195, 233–234, 252, 257, 292, 298

• recharacterisation 276, 282

• reciprocal 19, 25, 27–28, 41

• reditive 19, 24–25, 27, 31, 39, 305 ; see also adreditive see also distal reditive see also proximal reditive see also superreditive see also transreditive see also venitive reditivy

• reduplication5

• reflexive 19, 25, 41

• repetitive 19, 27

• responsive19

• restructuring 8, 173, 282, 292–293, 298–300

• retraction199

• reversative 18–19, 21, 24, 27–28, 30–31, 41, 293

• scalarity184

• schema 4, 16, 35–42, 50–55, 66–68, 107, 153–154, 168–170, 172, 201, 209, 213, 215, 220, 229, 234, 236–238, 247, 255, 280, 293–294, 298–302, 304–306
  • schematic category 96, 99–100, 102, 108, 112–113, 298
  • schematicity 8, 15–16, 40, 50, 95, 169–170, 201, 279, 292, 303–304
  • schematization 15–16, 21, 23, 35, 37–38, 41–42, 98, 112, 292–293, 301

• semantic change 38, 99, 191, 193, 254, 266

• semantic extension 28, 31, 184

• semi-schematic construction 96, 100, 108, 112

• sociative 19, 25

• spatial 122–123, 127–128, 140–141, 179, 181, 183–187, 189, 191, 193–194, 198–202, 302
  • spatial distance 181, 183–186, 194, 302
  • spatial meaning 193–194

• specialization 199, 302–303

• stative 19, 29–30, 169, 214

• sublative19

• subsective gradience4

• suffixoid230

• supercategory 139–140

• super-lative 19, 28

• superreditive 19, 30

• syntactic construction 209, 213, 217, 219–220, 306

• temporal 119, 122–123, 127–129, 140–141, 143–144, 150, 152, 156–157, 163, 171, 211

• timetic 17, 20

• tmesis 17, 20, 40

• transitivity 20, 32–33, 101–102, 110–111, 143–144, 294

• translative 19, 30–31

• transposition 4–5, 211

• transreditive 19, 31

• underdetermination 119, 127, 136–137, 140, 146, 296–297

• underspecification 119–120, 137, 140, 171, 296, 306

• unidirectionality8

• unification 219, 223–224, 226

• univerbation 5, 17

• vagueness 107, 119, 136–137, 146

• valency 32–33, 270–271

• venitive 19, 23–25, 39, 305
  • venitive reditive19

• verbal gerund 150–173, 295–296, 304

• verbaliser 267–268, 272

• VG see verbal gerund

• word class 3–4, 6, 15–16, 50, 58, 62, 119–120, 122–123, 126–130, 134, 136–141, 146, 202, 209–210, 212, 214, 217, 223, 226, 233, 263, 296–297
  • word-class change4