Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Constructions
Edited by Dániel Czicza and Gabriele Diewald
Special issue of Constructions and Frames 14:1 (2022) v, 223 pp.
Dániel Czicza
List of John Benjamins publications for which Dániel Czicza plays a role.
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Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Constructions Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Constructions, Czicza, Dániel and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Introduction
Construction grammar – most notably Cognitive Construction Grammar (Goldberg 2006), Radical Construction Grammar (Croft 2001) and Cognitive Grammar (Langacker 2008) – has been extremely inspiring in providing tools for modelling gradience in variation and change. Verbal constructions have been… read more
2022 Clause linkage and degrees of grammaticalization: The case of verdienen with correlated and non‑correlated dass- and infinitival complements Variation and Grammaticalization of Verbal Constructions, Czicza, Dániel and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 181–223 | Article
This paper deals with different types of verbal complementation of the German verb verdienen. It focuses on constructions that have been undergoing a grammaticalization process and thus express deontic modality, as in Sie verdient geliebt zu werden (ʽShe deserves to be lovedʼ) and Sie verdient zu… read more
2021 Grammaticalization of verdienen into an auxiliary marker of deontic modality: An item-driven usage-based approach Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar, Hilpert, Martin, Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere (eds.), pp. 81–122 | Chapter
This paper investigates synchronic variation in the lexical and grammatical environments of the German lexical verb verdienen ‘earn’, ‘deserve’. In its lexical uses, verdienen co-occurs with an object noun phrase whose head is either concrete (e.g. Geld ‘money’) or, more commonly, abstract (e.g.… read more