Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change
Edited by Evie Coussé and Ferdinand von Mengden
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 69] 2014. v, 275 pp.
Ferdinand von Mengden
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ferdinand von Mengden plays a role.
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Subjects Functional linguistics | Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2016 Functional changes and (meta-)linguistic evolution Exaptation and Language Change, Norde, Muriel and Freek Van de Velde (eds.), pp. 121–162 | Article
In this contribution I assess some mainstream approaches to functional changes of grammatical expressions with a focus on two concepts – ‘(secondary) grammaticalization’ and ‘exaptation’. As to the former, I argue that the most influential definition of ‘grammaticalization’ by Kuryłowicz’s (1965)… read more
2014 Introduction. The role of change in usage-based conceptions of language Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change, Coussé, Evie and Ferdinand von Mengden (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article
2008 Reconstructing complex structures: A typological perspective Principles of Syntactic Reconstruction, Ferraresi, Gisella and Maria Goldbach (eds.), pp. 97–119 | Article
Depending of the type of results we wish to achieve, different methods need to be employed in reconstructing proto-languages. In the first part of this paper I shall discuss the Comparative Method and elaborate why, I believe, this method is in principle not suitable for syntactic reconstruction.… read more
2008 The grammaticalization cline of cardinal numerals and numeral systems Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives, López-Couso, María José and Elena Seoane (eds.), pp. 289–308 | Article
This paper investigates the grammaticalization of cardinal numerals and numeral systems from a crosslinguistic perspective. The grammaticalization cline postulated here starts with a referential expression denoting a body part to a cardinal numeral and leads on to a functional affix which occurs in… read more