Constructions in Contact

Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages

Editors

Hans C. Boas | University of Texas at Austin

Steffen Höder | Kiel University

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The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time, very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of original contributions providing insights into language contact phenomena from a constructionist perspective. Focusing primarily on Germanic languages, the papers in this volume demonstrate how the notion of construction can be fruitfully applied to investigate how a range of different language contact phenomena can be systematically analyzed from the perspectives of both form and meaning.

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 24] 2018. vi, 316 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.24

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. 1–2

Part I. Constructions in contact: A theoretical overview

Construction Grammar and language contact: An introduction

Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder | pp. 5–36

Grammar is community-specific: Background and basic concepts of Diasystematic Construction Grammar

Steffen Höder | pp. 37–70

Part II. Constructional variation and change in contact

Towards a constructional analysis of the progressive aspect in Texas German

Margaret Blevins | pp. 73–113

Tense and aspect marking in (Low) German perfect constructions based on variety contact

Kathrin Weber | pp. 115–142

Distributional assimilation in constructional semantics: On contact-related semantic shifts in Afrikaans three-argument constructions

Timothy Colleman | pp. 143–177

Part III. Item-based patterns and constructional generalizations in contact

Constructions as cross-linguistic generalizations over instances: Passive patterns in contact

Jan-Ola Östman | pp. 181–210

Texas German and English word order constructions in contact

Ryan Dux | pp. 211–249

Part IV. Semantic frames in contact

A constructional account of the modal particle ‘ja’ in Texas German

Hans C. Boas | pp. 253–276

Frames change in language contact environments: A case study of schleichen (‘to sneak’) and kommen (‘to come’)

David Hünlich | pp. 277–310

Author index | pp. 311–312

Index of constructions | p. 313

Subject index | pp. 315–316

“Language contact used to be a blind spot in Construction Grammar. This exciting volume demonstrates that it is now taking its rightful place in constructional research. The articles in this volume cover argument structure constructions, verbal inflections, split auxiliary systems, modal particles, word order, and motion verbs in languages such as Danish, Afrikaans, Swedish, Turkish, and Texas German. With its broad outlook, the volume not only pushes the boundaries of current constructional research; it also makes it relevant to researchers from other theoretical backgrounds.”

Martin Hilpert, University of Neuchâtel

“A timely contribution from Construction Grammar to the current discussion on language contact and multilingualism. The case studies in this volume are united by a perspective on multilingualism as normalcy that brings language contact phenomena into the mainstream of linguistic analysis where they belong, thus setting a challenge one hopes will be taken up by other frameworks.”

Heike Wiese, University of Potsdam

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Boas, Hans C.

2020. Constructions in English Grammar. In The Handbook of English Linguistics, ► pp. 277 ff.

Boas, Hans C. & Steffen Höder

2021. Widening the scope. In Constructions in Contact 2 [Constructional Approaches to Language, 30], ► pp. 2 ff.

De Pascale, Stefano, Dirk Pijpops, Freek Van de Velde & Eline Zenner

2022. Reassembling the Pimped Ride: A Quantitative Look at the Integration of a Borrowed Expression. Frontiers in Communication 7

Hickey, Raymond

2020. Language Contact and Linguistic Research. In The Handbook of Language Contact, ► pp. 1 ff.

Hilpert, Martin

2019. Higher-order schemas in morphology: What they are, how they work, and where to find them. Word Structure 12:3 ► pp. 261 ff.

Noël, Dirk

2019. The decline of the Deontic nci construction in Late Modern English. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1 ► pp. 22 ff.

PEREK, FLORENT

2023. Construction Grammar and Usage‐Based Theory. In The Handbook of Usage‐Based Linguistics, ► pp. 215 ff.

Rottet, Kevin J.

2021. Making one’s way in Welsh. In Constructions in Contact 2 [Constructional Approaches to Language, 30], ► pp. 234 ff.

Schmid, Hans-Jörg

2020. How the Entrenchment-and-Conventionalization Model might enrich Diachronic Construction Grammar. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 34 ► pp. 306 ff.

Smirnova, Elena & Lotte Sommerer

2020. Introduction. In Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar [Constructional Approaches to Language, 27], ► pp. 2 ff.

Urban, Aileen

2021. Idioconstructions in conflict. In Constructions in Contact 2 [Constructional Approaches to Language, 30], ► pp. 18 ff.

Van Goethem, Kristel & Isa Hendrikx

2021. Intensifying constructions in second language acquisition. In Constructions in Contact 2 [Constructional Approaches to Language, 30], ► pp. 376 ff.

Wiesinger, Evelyn

2021. The Spanish verb-particle construction [V para atrás]. In Constructions in Contact 2 [Constructional Approaches to Language, 30], ► pp. 140 ff.

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