Table of contents
Introduction: The nature of the node and the network – Open questions in Diachronic
Construction Grammar1
The nodes: Creation, change, and loss
Constructionalization and the Sorites Paradox: The emergence of the into-causative45
Constructionalization, constructional competition and constructional
death: Investigating the demise of Old English POSS DEM
constructions69
The links: Vertical and horizontal relations
(Re)shaping the constructional network: Shifts and reorganizations in the network hierarchy107
Productivity and schematicity in constructional change141
Constructional networks and the development of benefactive ditransitives
in English167
Allostructions, homostructions, or a constructional family? Changes in the network of secondary predicate constructions in Middle
English213
Converging variations and the emergence of horizontal links: To-contraction in American English243
Beyond existing models
Paradigms lost – paradigms regained: Paradigms as hyper-constructions277
Putting connections centre stage in Diachronic Construction
Grammar317
Index353
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