Paradigms lost – paradigms regained
Paradigms as hyper-constructions
Based on Diewald (2009, 2015a, 2017),
it is claimed that the notion of paradigm needs to be introduced
into constructional accounts, as otherwise the essence of
grammaticalization cannot be properly captured in construction
grammar. It is suggested to define grammatical paradigms as a new
node type, a “hyper-construction”, which represents the categorical,
non-gradient specifics of grammatical meaning. This line of
argumentation is supported by a discussion of changes in the German
and English modality, tense, determiner, and number paradigms.
Independent arguments for the psychological reality of paradigms
come from the study of implicational relations in inflectional
morphology and diachronic phenomena such as layering, suppletion, and
paradigm pressure.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Terminological clarifications
- 2.1Grammaticalization versus grammatical change
- 2.2Grammaticalization versus constructionalization and
constructional change
- 2.3Paradigmatization as a crucial feature of
grammaticalization
- 3.Gradience and categorical distinctions
- 4.Paradigms lost: The status of paradigms in constructional models
- 5.Paradigms regained: Integrating paradigmatic knowledge into the
constructicon
- 5.1Paradigm ≠ paradigmatic relation
- 5.2The syntagmatic extension of paradigms
- 5.3The paradigm as a holistic entity / a
hyper-construction
- 6.Observations concerning the existence of paradigms in
language
- 6.1Implicational relations
- 6.2Layering and suppletion
- 6.3Paradigm pressure
- 7.Conclusion
-
Acknowledgements
-
Notes
-
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