Table of contents
Acknowledgements
VII
Part I.Introduction
Chapter 1.Category change from a constructional perspective: Introduction
3
Part II.Category genesis: The creation of new categories
Chapter 2.Category genesis in Chitimacha: A constructional approach
15
Chapter 3.Derivation without category change: A network-based analysis of
diminutive prefixoids in Dutch
47
Part III.Category change in syntactic constructions
Chapter 4.Grammaticalization, host-class expansion and category change
93
Chapter 5.Why would anyone take long? Word classes and
Construction Grammar in the history of long
119
Chapter 6.Category change in the English gerund: Tangled web or fine-tuned
constructional network?
149
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’
179
Part IV.Category change in morphological constructions
Chapter 8.Category change in Construction Morphology
209
Chapter 9.Evaluative Morphology in German, Dutch and Swedish: Constructional
networks and the loci of change
229
Chapter 10.Constructional change on the contentful-procedural gradient: The case of
the -idz(o) construction in Griko
263
Part V.Discussion
Chapter 11.Change in category membership from the perspective of construction
grammar: A commentary
291
Construction index
309
Subject index
311
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