Through a discourse-grounded internal reconstruction that aims at capturing the emergence of grammatical structure, the study examines the development of the subjective epistemic particle jestli ‘[in-my-opinion-] maybe’ in conversational Czech. Through internal reconstruction, the change (syntactic complementizer > speaker-centered epistemic contextualizer > subjective epistemic particle) is presented as a metonymy-based conventionalization of a pragmatic meaning implied by certain tokens of indirect Y/N questions into a new modal meaning. Taking a Construction Grammar approach, so far largely untested on diachronic data, the point of the analysis is to show that we can engage in a systematic treatment of the gradualness of change, by (i) combining the ‘holistic’ (constructional) dimension with the internal, feature-based and discourse-motivated mechanisms of complex grammatical shifts, and (ii) appealing to the explanatory potential of general cognitive and communicative principles as they manifest themselves in natural discourse. I also propose a formalism for representing the transitional nature of intermediate patterns.
2023. Representation of cultures and communities in a global ELT textbook: A diachronic content analysis. Language Teaching Research 27:5 ► pp. 1325 ff.
2023. The semiotics of motion encoding in Early English: a cognitive semiotic analysis of phrasal verbs in Old and Middle English. Semiotica 2023:251 ► pp. 55 ff.
Fried, Mirjam & Pavel Machač
2022. Intonation as a cue to epistemic stance in one type of insubordinate clauses. Folia Linguistica 56:1 ► pp. 183 ff.
Fried, Mirjam & Pavel Machač
2022. Intonation as a cue to epistemic stance in one type of insubordinate clauses. Folia Linguistica 56:1 ► pp. 183 ff.
Herbst, Thomas & Judith Huber
2022. Diachronic Construction Grammar – Introductory Remarks to This Special Issue. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 70:3 ► pp. 213 ff.
2021. From Discourse Markers to Construction Grammar(s) in Discourse. In Discourse Constructions in English [Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, ], ► pp. 7 ff.
2020.
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Garachana, Mar & María Sol Sansiñena
2023. Combinatorial Productivity of Spanish Verbal Periphrases as an Indicator of Their Degree of Grammaticalization. Languages 8:3 ► pp. 187 ff.
KIM, JONG-BOK & MARK DAVIES
2020. Englishwhat withabsolute constructions: a Construction Grammar perspective. English Language and Linguistics 24:4 ► pp. 637 ff.
D’hoedt, Frauke, Hendrik De Smet & Hubert Cuyckens
2019. Constructions Waxing and Waning: A Brief History of the Zero-Secondary Predicate Construction. Journal of English Linguistics 47:1 ► pp. 3 ff.
Põldvere, Nele & Carita Paradis
2019. Motivations and mechanisms for the development of the reactive what-x construction in spoken dialogue. Journal of Pragmatics 143 ► pp. 65 ff.
Rosemeyer, Malte & Mar Garachana
2019. De la consecución a la contraexpectación: la construccionalización delograr/conseguir+ infinitivo. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 12:2 ► pp. 383 ff.
Serdobolskaya, Natalia, Maria Usacheva & Timofey Arkhangelskiy
2018. Recent change in the productivity and schematicity of theway-construction: A distributional semantic analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 14:1 ► pp. 65 ff.
Van Goethem, Kristel, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé & Gudrun Vanderbauwhede
2012. Fluid Construction Grammar on Real Robots. In Language Grounding in Robots, ► pp. 195 ff.
Antonopoulou, Eleni & Kiki Nikiforidou
2011. Construction grammar and conventional discourse: A construction-based approach to discoursal incongruity. Journal of Pragmatics 43:10 ► pp. 2594 ff.
Gisborne, Nikolas
2011. Constructions, Word Grammar, and grammaticalization. cogl 22:1 ► pp. 155 ff.
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