Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change
Usage-based approaches to language have gained increasing attention in the last two decades. The importance of change and variation has always been recognized in this framework, but has never received central attention. It is the main aim of this book to fill this gap. Once we recognize that usage is crucial for our understanding of language and linguistic structures, language change and variation inevitably take centre stage in linguistic analysis. Along these lines, the volume presents eight studies by international authors that discuss various approaches to studying language change from a usage-based perspective. Both theoretical issues and empirical case studies are well-represented in this collection. The case studies cover a variety of different languages – ranging from historically well-studied European languages via Japanese to the Amazonian isolate Yurakaré with no written history at all. The book provides new insights relevant for scholars interested in both functional and cognitive linguistic theory, in historical linguists and in language typology.
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 69] 2014. v, 275 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 20 June 2014
Published online on 20 June 2014
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction. The role of change in usage-based conceptions of languageFerdinand von Mengden and Evie Coussé | pp. 1–20
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Part 1. Challenging mainstream models of language change
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Does innovation need reanalysis?Hendrik De Smet | pp. 23–48
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On cognition and communication in usage-based models of language changeLars Erik Zeige | pp. 49–80
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Part 2. The role of usage in semantic change
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From inferential to mirative: An interaction-based account of an emerging semantic extensionSonja Gipper | pp. 83–116
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The motivation for using English suspended dangling participles: A Usage-based development of (Inter)subjectivityNaoko Hayase | pp. 117–146
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The nature of speaker creativity in linguistic innovationOsamu Ishiyama | pp. 147–166
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Part 3. The role of usage and structure in language change
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Reanalysis and gramma(ticaliza)tion of constructions: The case of the deictic relative construction with perception verbs in FrenchKirsten Jeppesen Kragh and Lene Schøsler | pp. 169–202
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Constructional change, paradigmatic structure and the orientation of usage processesLars Heltoft | pp. 203–242
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Filling empty distinctions of expression with content: Usage-motivated assignment of grammatical meaningJens Nørgård-Sørensen | pp. 243–270
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Author index | pp. 271–272
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Subject index | pp. 273–275
Cited by (8)
Cited by eight other publications
Holguín Mendoza, Claudia & Eve Higby
GÜZEL, Hasan
De Pascale, Stefano, Dirk Pijpops, Freek Van de Velde & Eline Zenner
von Mengden, Ferdinand & Anneliese Kuhle
Noël, Dirk
2019. The decline of the Deontic nci construction in Late Modern English. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 6:1 ► pp. 22 ff.
Beuls, Katrien & Remi van Trijp
2016. Computational construction grammar and constructional change. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 30 ► pp. 1 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFF: Historical & comparative linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General