Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Editors
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. 45–67
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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. 167–211
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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. 317–351
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Index | pp. 353–355
“The present volume brings together an exciting range of proposals on how a dynamic network model of language can contribute to the analysis of diachronic change. The corpus methods used by the authors include state-of-the art techniques like collostructional analysis, distributional semantics and even more advanced computational tools like artificial neural networks, which have yet to become more widely applied in (historical) linguistic research. The contributions illustrate not only how a cognitively oriented network perspective can provide diachronic scholars with a new conceptual framework in which constructional change can be modelled as are configuration of linking patterns between nodes, but also how the careful analysis of language change can in turn inform network models which have so far been largely posited based on synchronic observations. The volume thus provides strong evidence that historical corpus data can complement psycholinguistic experiments in assessing the psychological plausibility of network structures, and the way in which these are shaped by speakers’ general cognitive abilities such as analogical reasoning.”
Tobias Ungerer, University of Edinburgh, in Journal of Historical Linguistics 12:2 (2022)
“The volume has provided new insights into the modeling of constructional networks and is an important contribution to DCxG. Furthermore, it is a very stimulating and thought-provoking book that challenges the reader to think about how to best model the constructional network. As such, it can be expected to feed future work in (Diachronic) Construction Grammar.”
Meili Liu, Ningbo College of Health Sciences, China & KU Leuven, Belgium, in Review of Cognitive Linguistics 20:1 (2022)
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