Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Editors
| University of Vienna
| Université de Neuchâtel
This volume brings together ten contributions by leading experts who present their current usage-based research in Diachronic Construction Grammar. All papers contribute to the discussion of how to conceptualize constructional networks best and how to model changes in the constructicon, as for example node creation or loss, node-external reconfiguration of the network or in/decrease in productivity and schematicity. The authors discuss the theoretical status of allostructions, homostructions, constructional families and constructional paradigms. The terminological distinction between constructionalization and constructional change is revisited. It is shown how constructional competition but also general cognitive abilities like analogical thinking and schematization relate to the structure and reorganization of the constructional network. Most contributions focus on the nature of vertical and horizontal links. Finally, contributions to the volume also discuss how existing network models should be enriched or reconceptualized in order to integrate theoretical, psychological and neurological aspects missing so far.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 27] 2020. vi, 355 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction: The nature of the node and the network – Open questions in Diachronic Construction GrammarElena Smirnova and Lotte Sommerer | pp. 1–42
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The nodes: Creation, change and loss
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Constructionalization and the Sorites Paradox: The emergence of the into-causativeSusanne Flach | pp. 45–68
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Constructionalization, constructional competition and constructional death: Investigating the demise of Old English POSS DEM constructionsLotte Sommerer | pp. 69–103
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The links: Vertical and horizontal relations
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(Re)shaping the constructional network: Modeling shifts and reorganizations in the network hierarchyEmmeline Gyselinck | pp. 107–140
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Productivity and schematicity in constructional changeFlorent Perek | pp. 141–166
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Constructional networks and the development of benefactive ditransitives in EnglishEva Zehentner and Elizabeth Closs Traugott | pp. 167–212
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Allostructions, homostructions or a constructional family? Changes in the network of secondary predicate constructions in Middle EnglishMichael Percillier | pp. 213–242
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Converging variations and the emergence of horizontal links: To-contraction in American EnglishDavid Lorenz | pp. 243–274
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Beyond existing models
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Paradigms lost – paradigms regained: Paradigms as hyper-constructionsGabriele Diewald | pp. 277–315
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Putting connections centre stage in diachronic Construction GrammarSara Budts and Peter Petré | pp. 317–352
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Index | pp. 353–355
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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009010 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative