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Martin Hilpert
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Martin
Hilpert
Université de Neuchâtel
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Bert Cappelle
Cappelle, Bert
Bert
Cappelle
Université de Lille
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Depraetere, Ilse
Ilse
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Université de Lille
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Contractions, constructions and constructional change
Investigating the constructionhood of English modal contractions from a diachronic perspective
1
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Robert Daugs
Daugs, Robert
Robert
Daugs
Kiel University
20
COHA
20
Construction Grammar
20
constructional change
20
modal contractions
01
In this paper, I argue that construction grammarians may have to consider integrating modal contractions into the English modal system as distinct constructions rather than variants of their uncontracted forms. Based on data from COHA, it can be shown that the contractions investigated here have emancipated themselves from the full forms both in terms of relative usage frequency as well as function over the past two centuries, thus yielding a series of constructional changes. From a usage-based, constructionist perspective, these results contribute to modelling the modal network as possibly represented in the minds of speakers, but they also support the understanding that this network appears to be much more heterogeneous than perhaps desired (by some linguists).
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Exploring relative degrees of auxiliarization empirically in German modal constructions with <i>wissen</i> and <i>verstehen</i>
Does host class expansion provide enough evidence?
1
A01
Volodymyr Dekalo
Dekalo, Volodymyr
Volodymyr
Dekalo
20
auxiliarization
20
grammaticalization
20
host class expansion
20
mixed-effects binary logistic regression
20
modal construction
01
The present paper investigates which sort of information – item- or feature-based – is more sufficient to quantify relative degrees of auxiliarization. To understand this issue, the study utilizes two German near-synonymous semi-schematic modal constructions with <i>wissen</i> and <i>verstehen</i>. Sketching the notion of host class expansion, the paper shows that the evidence of host class expansion by gauging type frequency of co-occurring elements is often used to demonstrate the increasing grammaticalization of a construction within usage-based construction grammar. Applying a mixed-effects binary logistic regression, the study ascertains a difference in the relative degree of grammaticalization between the <i>wissen</i>- and <i>verstehen</i>-construction by means of such usage features as (a) the position of verbal complements, (b) the grammatical form of modal auxiliaries, and (c) the animacy of subject referents. Comparing these results with the counts of the co-occurring element types of each modal construction, the analysis reveals that they contradict each other. As a result, the usage feature-based behavior is considered to be more important for deciding the relative degree of grammaticalization of semi-schematic constructions than host class expansion.
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Grammaticalization of <i>verdienen</i> into an auxiliary marker of deontic modality
An item-driven usage-based approach
1
A01
Gabriele Diewald
Diewald, Gabriele
Gabriele
Diewald
Leibniz Universität Hannover
2
A01
Volodymyr Dekalo
Dekalo, Volodymyr
Volodymyr
Dekalo
Leibniz Universität Hannover
3
A01
Dániel Czicza
Czicza, Dániel
Dániel
Czicza
Leibniz Universität Hannover
01
This paper investigates synchronic variation in the lexical and grammatical environments of the German lexical verb <i>verdienen</i> ‘earn’, ‘deserve’. In its lexical uses, <i>verdienen</i> co-occurs with an object noun phrase whose head is either concrete (e.g. <i>Geld</i> ‘money’) or, more commonly, abstract (e.g. <i>Beachtung</i> ‘attention’). When it is used more grammatically with deontic modal meaning, <i>verdienen</i> is followed by a passive or active infinitive. This paper uses collostructional analyses to contrast lexical and grammatical uses in terms of the most strongly attracted lexical items, which are grouped into semantic classes. The results reflect different degrees of host-class expansion (cf. Himmelmann 2004), whereby the collexemes of <i>verdienen</i> expand from concrete to abstract and their morpho-syntactic contexts from nominal to infinitival complement and subsequently from passive to active. Synchronic distribution can thus serve as a window on diachronic development (Kuteva 2001), in this case the rise of a deontic modality marker.
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The diachrony of Galician <i>certamente</i> and <i>seguramente</i>
The
diachrony of Galician <i>certamente</i> and <i>seguramente</i>
A case of grammatical constructionalization
1
A01
Vítor Míguez
Míguez, Vítor
Vítor
Míguez
Instituto da Lingua Galega
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This paper addresses the evolution of two Galician adverbs, <i>certamente</i> and <i>seguramente</i>. Data from three different periods show that they had similar manner, modal and discourse functions in the Middle Ages, as opposed to their distinct functional profiles in more recent days. The theoretical analysis is based on Traugott and Trousdale’s (2013) framework, and shows that several instances of grammatical constructionalization occurred since the emergence of -<i>mente</i> adverbs out of a Latin instrumental construction until the appearance of (inter)subjective markers. The current study also reveals that <i>certamente</i> has become a strengthener and, to a lesser extent, a certainty marker, whereas <i>seguramente</i> expresses probability. The semantic evolution of the adverbs, from manner, through strengthening, to epistemic modality, is in contradiction with the unidirectionality of (inter)subjectification, whereas the loss of intersubjective functions in <i>seguramente</i> is a case of deintersubjectification. Previous research shows that this is a recurrent pattern for epistemic and evidential expressions.
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Unfolding constructions
Postmodal auxiliaries in mirative complement patterns
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Rea Peltola
Peltola, Rea
Rea
Peltola
Université de Caen Normandie, CRISCO EA 4255
20
affect
20
complement constructions
20
Finnish
20
French
20
grammaticalization
20
mirativity
20
modal verbs
20
postmodality
20
procedural meaning
20
subjunctives
01
This paper explores the semantic motivation of postmodal auxiliaries in complement constructions conveying mirativity in French and Finnish. French <i>pouvoir</i> ‘can’ and Finnish <i>pitää</i> ‘should’ both occur as postmodal markers in complements of epistemic and axiological items. These constructions refer to events that deviate from what is discursively projected as expected. As a modal verb of possibility, <i>pouvoir</i> profiles the meaning ‘<b>p</b> and not <b>¬p</b>’, which is based on an opposition, while <i>pitää</i>, originally a necessity verb, gives prominence to the paradigmatic meaning ’<b>p</b> instead of <b>q<sub>1</sub>, q<sub>2</sub>
</b>…’. While the two verbs function in a similar manner as indexes of an interclausal semantic link in mirative constructions, the meaning of unexpectedness is not construed in the same way, and the critical contexts in the evolution of postmodal complement patterns with <i>pouvoir</i> and <i>pitää</i> are of a different type.
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Horizontal links within and between paradigms
The constructional network of reported directives in German
1
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Elena Smirnova
Smirnova, Elena
Elena
Smirnova
Université de Neuchâtel
20
allostructions
20
constructional network
20
German
20
horizontal links
20
paradigmatic choices
20
paradigmatic organization
20
reported directives
20
speech acts
01
This paper deals with the constructional network of reported directive speech acts in German. It addresses two aspects of modality and constructions by relating directly to questions raised in the introduction to this volume: the notion of the paradigm in Construction Grammar on the one hand and the nature of the links within the constructional network model on the other. By investigating the network of syntactic constructions of reported directives in German, the paper focuses on the modelling of two types of horizonal paradigmatic links between these constructions: the links between allostructions and the links between paradigmatic choices. On the conceptual level, the paper argues that these two types of paradigmatic links constitute two different types of horizontal links in the network. On the empirical level, the study demonstrates how these horizontal links manifest themselves in the corpus data.
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Constructionalization of Japanese <i>koto</i> imperatives
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Etsuyo Yuasa
Yuasa, Etsuyo
Etsuyo
Yuasa
The Ohio State University
20
constructionalization
20
imperative
20
Japanese
20
suspended clause
01
This paper examines <i>koto</i> imperatives (e.g., <i>tōku-o mite unten-suru koto!</i> ‘drive looking far ahead!’) in Japanese. With internal reconstruction, it is shown that <i>koto</i> imperatives not only underwent a process of pragmatic strengthening resulting in a new sense of modality, but also inherited the syntactic schema of the prototypical modal (raising-to-subject) construction. Given this new meaning associated with new syntax, it is proposed that <i>koto</i> imperatives are an instance of constructionalization. Given the similarities between <i>koto</i> imperatives and suspended clauses (Ohori, 1995), the current analysis also raises the possibility that constructionalization may take place or may be taking place with other emerging modality expressions in Japanese.
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Index
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Université de Neuchâtel
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Bert Cappelle
Cappelle, Bert
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Université de Lille
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Depraetere, Ilse
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Université de Lille
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Contractions, constructions and constructional change
Investigating the constructionhood of English modal contractions from a diachronic perspective
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Robert Daugs
Daugs, Robert
Robert
Daugs
Kiel University
20
COHA
20
Construction Grammar
20
constructional change
20
modal contractions
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In this paper, I argue that construction grammarians may have to consider integrating modal contractions into the English modal system as distinct constructions rather than variants of their uncontracted forms. Based on data from COHA, it can be shown that the contractions investigated here have emancipated themselves from the full forms both in terms of relative usage frequency as well as function over the past two centuries, thus yielding a series of constructional changes. From a usage-based, constructionist perspective, these results contribute to modelling the modal network as possibly represented in the minds of speakers, but they also support the understanding that this network appears to be much more heterogeneous than perhaps desired (by some linguists).
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Exploring relative degrees of auxiliarization empirically in German modal constructions with <i>wissen</i> and <i>verstehen</i>
Does host class expansion provide enough evidence?
1
A01
Volodymyr Dekalo
Dekalo, Volodymyr
Volodymyr
Dekalo
20
auxiliarization
20
grammaticalization
20
host class expansion
20
mixed-effects binary logistic regression
20
modal construction
01
The present paper investigates which sort of information – item- or feature-based – is more sufficient to quantify relative degrees of auxiliarization. To understand this issue, the study utilizes two German near-synonymous semi-schematic modal constructions with <i>wissen</i> and <i>verstehen</i>. Sketching the notion of host class expansion, the paper shows that the evidence of host class expansion by gauging type frequency of co-occurring elements is often used to demonstrate the increasing grammaticalization of a construction within usage-based construction grammar. Applying a mixed-effects binary logistic regression, the study ascertains a difference in the relative degree of grammaticalization between the <i>wissen</i>- and <i>verstehen</i>-construction by means of such usage features as (a) the position of verbal complements, (b) the grammatical form of modal auxiliaries, and (c) the animacy of subject referents. Comparing these results with the counts of the co-occurring element types of each modal construction, the analysis reveals that they contradict each other. As a result, the usage feature-based behavior is considered to be more important for deciding the relative degree of grammaticalization of semi-schematic constructions than host class expansion.
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Grammaticalization of <i>verdienen</i> into an auxiliary marker of deontic modality
An item-driven usage-based approach
1
A01
Gabriele Diewald
Diewald, Gabriele
Gabriele
Diewald
Leibniz Universität Hannover
2
A01
Volodymyr Dekalo
Dekalo, Volodymyr
Volodymyr
Dekalo
Leibniz Universität Hannover
3
A01
Dániel Czicza
Czicza, Dániel
Dániel
Czicza
Leibniz Universität Hannover
01
This paper investigates synchronic variation in the lexical and grammatical environments of the German lexical verb <i>verdienen</i> ‘earn’, ‘deserve’. In its lexical uses, <i>verdienen</i> co-occurs with an object noun phrase whose head is either concrete (e.g. <i>Geld</i> ‘money’) or, more commonly, abstract (e.g. <i>Beachtung</i> ‘attention’). When it is used more grammatically with deontic modal meaning, <i>verdienen</i> is followed by a passive or active infinitive. This paper uses collostructional analyses to contrast lexical and grammatical uses in terms of the most strongly attracted lexical items, which are grouped into semantic classes. The results reflect different degrees of host-class expansion (cf. Himmelmann 2004), whereby the collexemes of <i>verdienen</i> expand from concrete to abstract and their morpho-syntactic contexts from nominal to infinitival complement and subsequently from passive to active. Synchronic distribution can thus serve as a window on diachronic development (Kuteva 2001), in this case the rise of a deontic modality marker.
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The diachrony of Galician <i>certamente</i> and <i>seguramente</i>
The
diachrony of Galician <i>certamente</i> and <i>seguramente</i>
A case of grammatical constructionalization
1
A01
Vítor Míguez
Míguez, Vítor
Vítor
Míguez
Instituto da Lingua Galega
01
This paper addresses the evolution of two Galician adverbs, <i>certamente</i> and <i>seguramente</i>. Data from three different periods show that they had similar manner, modal and discourse functions in the Middle Ages, as opposed to their distinct functional profiles in more recent days. The theoretical analysis is based on Traugott and Trousdale’s (2013) framework, and shows that several instances of grammatical constructionalization occurred since the emergence of -<i>mente</i> adverbs out of a Latin instrumental construction until the appearance of (inter)subjective markers. The current study also reveals that <i>certamente</i> has become a strengthener and, to a lesser extent, a certainty marker, whereas <i>seguramente</i> expresses probability. The semantic evolution of the adverbs, from manner, through strengthening, to epistemic modality, is in contradiction with the unidirectionality of (inter)subjectification, whereas the loss of intersubjective functions in <i>seguramente</i> is a case of deintersubjectification. Previous research shows that this is a recurrent pattern for epistemic and evidential expressions.
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Unfolding constructions
Postmodal auxiliaries in mirative complement patterns
1
A01
Rea Peltola
Peltola, Rea
Rea
Peltola
Université de Caen Normandie, CRISCO EA 4255
20
affect
20
complement constructions
20
Finnish
20
French
20
grammaticalization
20
mirativity
20
modal verbs
20
postmodality
20
procedural meaning
20
subjunctives
01
This paper explores the semantic motivation of postmodal auxiliaries in complement constructions conveying mirativity in French and Finnish. French <i>pouvoir</i> ‘can’ and Finnish <i>pitää</i> ‘should’ both occur as postmodal markers in complements of epistemic and axiological items. These constructions refer to events that deviate from what is discursively projected as expected. As a modal verb of possibility, <i>pouvoir</i> profiles the meaning ‘<b>p</b> and not <b>¬p</b>’, which is based on an opposition, while <i>pitää</i>, originally a necessity verb, gives prominence to the paradigmatic meaning ’<b>p</b> instead of <b>q<sub>1</sub>, q<sub>2</sub>
</b>…’. While the two verbs function in a similar manner as indexes of an interclausal semantic link in mirative constructions, the meaning of unexpectedness is not construed in the same way, and the critical contexts in the evolution of postmodal complement patterns with <i>pouvoir</i> and <i>pitää</i> are of a different type.
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Horizontal links within and between paradigms
The constructional network of reported directives in German
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A01
Elena Smirnova
Smirnova, Elena
Elena
Smirnova
Université de Neuchâtel
20
allostructions
20
constructional network
20
German
20
horizontal links
20
paradigmatic choices
20
paradigmatic organization
20
reported directives
20
speech acts
01
This paper deals with the constructional network of reported directive speech acts in German. It addresses two aspects of modality and constructions by relating directly to questions raised in the introduction to this volume: the notion of the paradigm in Construction Grammar on the one hand and the nature of the links within the constructional network model on the other. By investigating the network of syntactic constructions of reported directives in German, the paper focuses on the modelling of two types of horizonal paradigmatic links between these constructions: the links between allostructions and the links between paradigmatic choices. On the conceptual level, the paper argues that these two types of paradigmatic links constitute two different types of horizontal links in the network. On the empirical level, the study demonstrates how these horizontal links manifest themselves in the corpus data.
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Constructionalization of Japanese <i>koto</i> imperatives
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Etsuyo Yuasa
Yuasa, Etsuyo
Etsuyo
Yuasa
The Ohio State University
20
constructionalization
20
imperative
20
Japanese
20
suspended clause
01
This paper examines <i>koto</i> imperatives (e.g., <i>tōku-o mite unten-suru koto!</i> ‘drive looking far ahead!’) in Japanese. With internal reconstruction, it is shown that <i>koto</i> imperatives not only underwent a process of pragmatic strengthening resulting in a new sense of modality, but also inherited the syntactic schema of the prototypical modal (raising-to-subject) construction. Given this new meaning associated with new syntax, it is proposed that <i>koto</i> imperatives are an instance of constructionalization. Given the similarities between <i>koto</i> imperatives and suspended clauses (Ohori, 1995), the current analysis also raises the possibility that constructionalization may take place or may be taking place with other emerging modality expressions in Japanese.
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