963030570 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code CAL 40 Eb 15 9789027244574 06 10.1075/cal.40 13 2025025396 DG 002 02 01 CAL 02 1573-594X Constructional Approaches to Language 40 01 cal.40 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.40 1 B01 Hans C. Boas Boas, Hans C. Hans C. Boas University of Texas at Austin 2 B01 Steffen Höder Höder, Steffen Steffen Höder Kiel University 01 eng 333 viii 325 LAN009060 v.2006 CFK 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.CONT Contact Linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.BIL Multilingualism 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PHON Phonology 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a fresh look at fundamental questions in contact linguistics. This volume continues the series of works on Constructions in Contact (the first two volumes were published in 2018 and 2021). It presents new research on the constructionist modelling of language contact phenomena, the impact of multilingualism on argument structure constructions and the role of phonological units in language contact. The volume thus combines classical areas of constructional research with innovative ones, demonstrating the broad applicability of Construction Grammar for contact linguistics. 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/cal.40.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027228277.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027228277.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/cal.40.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/cal.40.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/cal.40.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/cal.40.hb.png 10 01 JB code cal.40.prelim i iv 4 Prelim pages 1 10 01 JB code cal.40.toc v vi 2 Table of contents 2 10 01 JB code cal.40.pre vii viii 2 Preface 3 10 01 JB code cal.40.01boa 1 21 21 Chapter 4 1 A01 Hans C. Boas Boas, Hans C. Hans C. Boas The University of Texas at Austin 2 A01 Steffen Höder Höder, Steffen Steffen Höder Kiel University 10 01 JB code cal.40.02boa 22 78 57 Chapter 5 1 A01 Hans C. Boas Boas, Hans C. Hans C. Boas The University of Texas at Austin 2 A01 Steffen Höder Höder, Steffen Steffen Höder Kiel University 20 Diasystematic Construction Grammar 20 language change 20 Language contact 20 multilingualism 20 usage-based 01 This paper presents the various arguments in favor of a non-modular, data-driven approach to language contact phenomena. Based on a review of modular approaches to studying language contact, the paper shows how Diasystematic Construction Grammar (a usage-based approach) allows for a different way of studying language contact phenomena that implements the constructional commitment to account for all kinds of linguistic phenomena as long as they involve form-function pairs. 10 01 JB code cal.40.03hun 79 110 32 Chapter 6 1 A01 Marianne Hundt Hundt, Marianne Marianne Hundt University of Zürich 2 A01 Laetitia Van Driessche Driessche, Laetitia Van Laetitia Van Driessche University of Zürich 20 analogy 20 Argument Structure Constructions 20 diachronic and regional variation 20 language contact 20 macro- vs. micro-level changes 20 Post-Colonial Englishes 20 prepositions 20 Romance verbs 01 Diachronic and regional variation in English Argument Structure Constructions with one and two non-subject arguments involves competition between prepositional and bare noun phrase arguments apparently influenced, among other things, by language contact. Crucially, the answer to the question whether an Argument Structure Construction in a Post-Colonial variety of English constitutes an instance of structural nativisation or not hinges on diachronic evidence. This is the first case study into a sizeable number of Romance loan verbs that investigates competition in complementation patterns across time and space using evidence from corpora of Early and Late Modern English, contemporary British English, and three Post-Colonial Englishes with typologically different substrate languages. The data show that Romance verbs with one and two non-subject complements behave very differently, both diachronically and regionally. On a macro-level, the patterns of variation in PCEs defy a simple answer in terms of language contact or substrate influence. On the micro-level of individual verbs and their complementation patterns, our findings can be integrated in the common ground for Diachronic and Diasystematic Construction Grammar, namely analogical thinking. 10 01 JB code cal.40.04wie 111 178 68 Chapter 7 1 A01 Evelyn Wiesinger Wiesinger, Evelyn Evelyn Wiesinger University of Tübingen 20 French 20 Gbe languages 20 Guianese French Creole 20 motion constructions 20 multi-verb constructions 20 self-motion 01 Creole languages offer a fascinating insight into the (re)structuring of argument structure constructions (hereafter ASCs) in language contact situations involving genetically unrelated languages. So far, however, research on ASCs in creoles has been strongly biased towards the search for so-called African ‘substrate’ influence. In the present contribution, I propose a more nuanced perspective that is consistent with findings from usage-based and/or constructionist studies on motion encoding among bilingual speakers and in second language learning. These show the adoption or retention of L2 lexical items and of (both lexically bound and more abstract) ASCs, but also fine-grained constructional differences in comparison to monolingual speakers. Drawing on lexicographic sources and quantitative corpus data from oral folktales, I provide a usage-based and cognitive-constructionist analysis of self-motion constructions in Guianese French Creole, which emerged at the turn of the 17th to the 18th century from contact between French-speaking colonists and the (predominantly) West-African slave population. My case study shows that verb-framed intransitive motion constructions with path verbs of (Colonial) French origin are by far the most frequent and productive construction type, similar to French. Moreover, I find more subtle ‘hybrid’ characteristics in Creole self-motion constructions (e.g. with regard to prepositional uses and restrictions on specific lexical fillers) that can be related to contact-induced and/or convergence-driven developments involving multiple source constructions. This is in sharp contrast to previous research suggesting that creole ASCs are overwhelmingly of non-French origin and shows interesting parallels with research on typological tendencies and bilingual speakers and learners. 10 01 JB code cal.40.05col 179 207 29 Chapter 8 1 A01 Timothy Colleman Colleman, Timothy Timothy Colleman Ghent University 20 dative alternation 20 diachronic construction grammar 20 Early Modern Dutch 20 French influence 20 horizontal links/similarity links 20 indirect object 20 language contact 01 Building on earlier work on the diachrony of the Dutch dative alternation and on proposals by Ingham (2017; 2023) and Trips and Stein (2019) about French influence on the emergence of the dative alternation in English, this paper investigates the possible role of French-based loan verbs in -<i>eren</i> on the extension of the prepositional <i>aan</i>-dative in the course of 16th century Dutch. To this end, a test set of 94 -<i>eren</i> verbs was compiled which appear to have the “right” semantics for potentially occurring in the ditransitive constructions at stake and a four-step procedure was used for querying the 16th century sources (digitally) available for instances of these verbs in the double object construction and/or in the “new” pattern with <i>aan</i>. 22 verbs were identified that occur in both patterns. It will be argued that the import of such verbs brought along a substantial increase in the number of verb types shared between the two constructions and that, thus, French influence was a catalyst in the process leading to the establishment of a similarity link between them. 10 01 JB code cal.40.06koc 208 246 39 Chapter 9 1 A01 Nikolas Koch Koch, Nikolas Nikolas Koch Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 2 A01 Katharina Günther Günther, Katharina Katharina Günther Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 20 bilingual language acquisition 20 caused motion 20 French 20 German 20 low-level generalizations 20 usage-based approach 01 According to usage-based approaches, constructions become more abstract as language acquisition progresses, resulting in argument structure constructions. Verbs in particular play a crucial role here, especially in low-level generalization in which generalizations emerge around concrete verbs. In bilingual language acquisition, children face the challenge of having to acquire two sets of non-equivalent constructions and might thus show differences in the abstraction process compared to monolinguals. Due to a possible higher cognitive load and reduced vocabulary, one could expect bilingual children to show even stronger low-level generalizations. Targeting caused motion events, the present study investigates the use of verbs in caused-motion constructions in three different age groups (4, 6, and 8 years old) of German–French bilingual children and monolingual control groups. In a first step, the proportion of general-purpose verbs — a small group of semantically neutral verbs, such as <i>do</i>, <i>go</i>, <i>make</i>, etc., that have a semantically privileged status and are therefore used very frequently — in relation to more specific verbs was determined. Results showed that the number of general-purpose verbs decreased with age and was significantly higher for bilinguals than for monolinguals at all ages. In a second step, the variation within the verb slot was examined for each individual subject. Although a high degree of inter-individuality was found here, prototypical verbs were identified for some event types, indicating lower-level generalizations. 10 01 JB code cal.40.07war 247 290 44 Chapter 10 1 A01 Matthias Warmuth Warmuth, Matthias Matthias Warmuth The University of Texas at Austin 20 cognition 20 construction grammar 20 diphthongization 20 language attrition 20 language contact 20 language death 20 Texas German 01 This paper provides a constructionist account of the diphthongization of long vowels /eː/ and /oː/ in Texas German (TxG), a set of New World varieties spoken in Texas. Earlier studies on TxG, e.g. Eikel (1966) and Gilbert (1972), generally report long vowels in words such as <i>geht</i> ‘goes’ or <i>Kohl</i> ‘cabbage.’ Today, the presence of a significant amount of diphthongization from /eː/ and /oː/ to [eɪ] and [oʊ] in data collected by the Texas German Dialect Project (TGDP) shows that diphthongization must be acknowledged as a variable phonological feature of present-day TxG. Statistical analysis reveals that age, but not gender, correlates with this phenomenon. The phenomenon marks an example of pro-diasystematic change, i.e. a mechanism that turns language-specific constructions into diaconstructions (Diasystematic Construction Grammar; Höder, 2012; 2014; 2018; 2019). Language attrition and language death appear as the driving forces. 10 01 JB code cal.40.08hag 291 317 27 Chapter 11 1 A01 Anna Hagel Hagel, Anna Anna Hagel Kiel University 20 Diasystematic Construction Grammar 20 higher-order schemas 20 intercommunication 20 phonological schematicity 20 submorphemic level 01 The phonological form of constructions is often mentioned only in a side note, if at all, in CxG contributions. However, phonology plays an important role at all structural levels, including one that has hardly been acknowledged outside a phonological context: the submorphemic level. Evidence from a growing body of research suggests that submorphemic patterns are highly relevant for the cognitive organization of linguistic knowledge. Crucially, submorphemic patterns and the closely related notion of phonological schemas call for a re-evaluation of the syntax-lexicon continuum and raise the question how phonological variability is processed by speakers and integrated into their construct-i-cons. The paper makes a theoretical contribution to this discussion and illustrates the potential complexity of a type of submorphemic pattern that is thought to play a major role in intercommunication involving closely related languages and varieties: sound correspondence patterns. It suggests that sound correspondence patterns can be modelled as constructions that can be phonologically schematic to different degrees on different ‘dimensions’ below the word level. 10 01 JB code cal.40.ai 319 320 2 Index 12 10 01 JB code cal.40.ci 321 1 Index 13 10 01 JB code cal.40.si 323 325 3 Index 14 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20251013 2025 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027228277 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 20 01 00 130.00 EUR R 01 00 109.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 169.00 USD S 791030569 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code CAL 40 Hb 15 9789027228277 13 2025025395 BB 01 CAL 02 1573-594X Constructional Approaches to Language 40 01 cal.40 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.40 1 B01 Hans C. Boas Boas, Hans C. Hans C. Boas University of Texas at Austin 2 B01 Steffen Höder Höder, Steffen Steffen Höder Kiel University 01 eng 333 viii 325 LAN009060 v.2006 CFK 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.CONT Contact Linguistics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.BIL Multilingualism 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PHON Phonology 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SYNTAX Syntax 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.THEOR Theoretical linguistics 06 01 Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a fresh look at fundamental questions in contact linguistics. This volume continues the series of works on Constructions in Contact (the first two volumes were published in 2018 and 2021). It presents new research on the constructionist modelling of language contact phenomena, the impact of multilingualism on argument structure constructions and the role of phonological units in language contact. The volume thus combines classical areas of constructional research with innovative ones, demonstrating the broad applicability of Construction Grammar for contact linguistics. 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/cal.40.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027228277.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027228277.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/cal.40.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/cal.40.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/cal.40.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/cal.40.hb.png 10 01 JB code cal.40.prelim i iv 4 Prelim pages 1 10 01 JB code cal.40.toc v vi 2 Table of contents 2 10 01 JB code cal.40.pre vii viii 2 Preface 3 10 01 JB code cal.40.01boa 1 21 21 Chapter 4 1 A01 Hans C. Boas Boas, Hans C. Hans C. Boas The University of Texas at Austin 2 A01 Steffen Höder Höder, Steffen Steffen Höder Kiel University 10 01 JB code cal.40.02boa 22 78 57 Chapter 5 1 A01 Hans C. Boas Boas, Hans C. Hans C. Boas The University of Texas at Austin 2 A01 Steffen Höder Höder, Steffen Steffen Höder Kiel University 20 Diasystematic Construction Grammar 20 language change 20 Language contact 20 multilingualism 20 usage-based 01 This paper presents the various arguments in favor of a non-modular, data-driven approach to language contact phenomena. Based on a review of modular approaches to studying language contact, the paper shows how Diasystematic Construction Grammar (a usage-based approach) allows for a different way of studying language contact phenomena that implements the constructional commitment to account for all kinds of linguistic phenomena as long as they involve form-function pairs. 10 01 JB code cal.40.03hun 79 110 32 Chapter 6 1 A01 Marianne Hundt Hundt, Marianne Marianne Hundt University of Zürich 2 A01 Laetitia Van Driessche Driessche, Laetitia Van Laetitia Van Driessche University of Zürich 20 analogy 20 Argument Structure Constructions 20 diachronic and regional variation 20 language contact 20 macro- vs. micro-level changes 20 Post-Colonial Englishes 20 prepositions 20 Romance verbs 01 Diachronic and regional variation in English Argument Structure Constructions with one and two non-subject arguments involves competition between prepositional and bare noun phrase arguments apparently influenced, among other things, by language contact. Crucially, the answer to the question whether an Argument Structure Construction in a Post-Colonial variety of English constitutes an instance of structural nativisation or not hinges on diachronic evidence. This is the first case study into a sizeable number of Romance loan verbs that investigates competition in complementation patterns across time and space using evidence from corpora of Early and Late Modern English, contemporary British English, and three Post-Colonial Englishes with typologically different substrate languages. The data show that Romance verbs with one and two non-subject complements behave very differently, both diachronically and regionally. On a macro-level, the patterns of variation in PCEs defy a simple answer in terms of language contact or substrate influence. On the micro-level of individual verbs and their complementation patterns, our findings can be integrated in the common ground for Diachronic and Diasystematic Construction Grammar, namely analogical thinking. 10 01 JB code cal.40.04wie 111 178 68 Chapter 7 1 A01 Evelyn Wiesinger Wiesinger, Evelyn Evelyn Wiesinger University of Tübingen 20 French 20 Gbe languages 20 Guianese French Creole 20 motion constructions 20 multi-verb constructions 20 self-motion 01 Creole languages offer a fascinating insight into the (re)structuring of argument structure constructions (hereafter ASCs) in language contact situations involving genetically unrelated languages. So far, however, research on ASCs in creoles has been strongly biased towards the search for so-called African ‘substrate’ influence. In the present contribution, I propose a more nuanced perspective that is consistent with findings from usage-based and/or constructionist studies on motion encoding among bilingual speakers and in second language learning. These show the adoption or retention of L2 lexical items and of (both lexically bound and more abstract) ASCs, but also fine-grained constructional differences in comparison to monolingual speakers. Drawing on lexicographic sources and quantitative corpus data from oral folktales, I provide a usage-based and cognitive-constructionist analysis of self-motion constructions in Guianese French Creole, which emerged at the turn of the 17th to the 18th century from contact between French-speaking colonists and the (predominantly) West-African slave population. My case study shows that verb-framed intransitive motion constructions with path verbs of (Colonial) French origin are by far the most frequent and productive construction type, similar to French. Moreover, I find more subtle ‘hybrid’ characteristics in Creole self-motion constructions (e.g. with regard to prepositional uses and restrictions on specific lexical fillers) that can be related to contact-induced and/or convergence-driven developments involving multiple source constructions. This is in sharp contrast to previous research suggesting that creole ASCs are overwhelmingly of non-French origin and shows interesting parallels with research on typological tendencies and bilingual speakers and learners. 10 01 JB code cal.40.05col 179 207 29 Chapter 8 1 A01 Timothy Colleman Colleman, Timothy Timothy Colleman Ghent University 20 dative alternation 20 diachronic construction grammar 20 Early Modern Dutch 20 French influence 20 horizontal links/similarity links 20 indirect object 20 language contact 01 Building on earlier work on the diachrony of the Dutch dative alternation and on proposals by Ingham (2017; 2023) and Trips and Stein (2019) about French influence on the emergence of the dative alternation in English, this paper investigates the possible role of French-based loan verbs in -<i>eren</i> on the extension of the prepositional <i>aan</i>-dative in the course of 16th century Dutch. To this end, a test set of 94 -<i>eren</i> verbs was compiled which appear to have the “right” semantics for potentially occurring in the ditransitive constructions at stake and a four-step procedure was used for querying the 16th century sources (digitally) available for instances of these verbs in the double object construction and/or in the “new” pattern with <i>aan</i>. 22 verbs were identified that occur in both patterns. It will be argued that the import of such verbs brought along a substantial increase in the number of verb types shared between the two constructions and that, thus, French influence was a catalyst in the process leading to the establishment of a similarity link between them. 10 01 JB code cal.40.06koc 208 246 39 Chapter 9 1 A01 Nikolas Koch Koch, Nikolas Nikolas Koch Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 2 A01 Katharina Günther Günther, Katharina Katharina Günther Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 20 bilingual language acquisition 20 caused motion 20 French 20 German 20 low-level generalizations 20 usage-based approach 01 According to usage-based approaches, constructions become more abstract as language acquisition progresses, resulting in argument structure constructions. Verbs in particular play a crucial role here, especially in low-level generalization in which generalizations emerge around concrete verbs. In bilingual language acquisition, children face the challenge of having to acquire two sets of non-equivalent constructions and might thus show differences in the abstraction process compared to monolinguals. Due to a possible higher cognitive load and reduced vocabulary, one could expect bilingual children to show even stronger low-level generalizations. Targeting caused motion events, the present study investigates the use of verbs in caused-motion constructions in three different age groups (4, 6, and 8 years old) of German–French bilingual children and monolingual control groups. In a first step, the proportion of general-purpose verbs — a small group of semantically neutral verbs, such as <i>do</i>, <i>go</i>, <i>make</i>, etc., that have a semantically privileged status and are therefore used very frequently — in relation to more specific verbs was determined. Results showed that the number of general-purpose verbs decreased with age and was significantly higher for bilinguals than for monolinguals at all ages. In a second step, the variation within the verb slot was examined for each individual subject. Although a high degree of inter-individuality was found here, prototypical verbs were identified for some event types, indicating lower-level generalizations. 10 01 JB code cal.40.07war 247 290 44 Chapter 10 1 A01 Matthias Warmuth Warmuth, Matthias Matthias Warmuth The University of Texas at Austin 20 cognition 20 construction grammar 20 diphthongization 20 language attrition 20 language contact 20 language death 20 Texas German 01 This paper provides a constructionist account of the diphthongization of long vowels /eː/ and /oː/ in Texas German (TxG), a set of New World varieties spoken in Texas. Earlier studies on TxG, e.g. Eikel (1966) and Gilbert (1972), generally report long vowels in words such as <i>geht</i> ‘goes’ or <i>Kohl</i> ‘cabbage.’ Today, the presence of a significant amount of diphthongization from /eː/ and /oː/ to [eɪ] and [oʊ] in data collected by the Texas German Dialect Project (TGDP) shows that diphthongization must be acknowledged as a variable phonological feature of present-day TxG. Statistical analysis reveals that age, but not gender, correlates with this phenomenon. The phenomenon marks an example of pro-diasystematic change, i.e. a mechanism that turns language-specific constructions into diaconstructions (Diasystematic Construction Grammar; Höder, 2012; 2014; 2018; 2019). Language attrition and language death appear as the driving forces. 10 01 JB code cal.40.08hag 291 317 27 Chapter 11 1 A01 Anna Hagel Hagel, Anna Anna Hagel Kiel University 20 Diasystematic Construction Grammar 20 higher-order schemas 20 intercommunication 20 phonological schematicity 20 submorphemic level 01 The phonological form of constructions is often mentioned only in a side note, if at all, in CxG contributions. However, phonology plays an important role at all structural levels, including one that has hardly been acknowledged outside a phonological context: the submorphemic level. Evidence from a growing body of research suggests that submorphemic patterns are highly relevant for the cognitive organization of linguistic knowledge. Crucially, submorphemic patterns and the closely related notion of phonological schemas call for a re-evaluation of the syntax-lexicon continuum and raise the question how phonological variability is processed by speakers and integrated into their construct-i-cons. The paper makes a theoretical contribution to this discussion and illustrates the potential complexity of a type of submorphemic pattern that is thought to play a major role in intercommunication involving closely related languages and varieties: sound correspondence patterns. It suggests that sound correspondence patterns can be modelled as constructions that can be phonologically schematic to different degrees on different ‘dimensions’ below the word level. 10 01 JB code cal.40.ai 319 320 2 Index 12 10 01 JB code cal.40.ci 321 1 Index 13 10 01 JB code cal.40.si 323 325 3 Index 14 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20251013 2025 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 745 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 20 38 20 01 02 JB 1 00 130.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 137.80 EUR R 01 JB 10 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 GB 20 20 02 02 JB 1 00 109.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 Casemate Academic 610-853-9131 610-853-9143 Girard.Kratz@casematepublishers.com 01 https://benjamins.com 02 US CA MX 20 20 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 169.00 USD