This paper assumes that in order to explain rather than describe language change, historical linguists should not only consider what happens diachronically at the language output level but also, crucially, what speaker-listeners do at the processing level. The reason for this is that the structure of the language is shaped by the properties of the neurolinguistic mechanism underlying both language use and language learning. It will be argued that analogy as an important principle in grammar formation is the main mechanism in grammaticalization and in change in general when looked at from a processing point of view. The paper discusses the workings of analogy in a number of cases in the history of English which have traditionally been interpreted as unidirectional cases of grammaticalization . It will be shown instead that multiple source constructions were involved, which influenced one another and thus gave direction to the change.
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Gillmann, Melitta
2021. Analogy as driving force of language change: a usage-based approach towoanddaclauses in 17th and 18th century German. Cognitive Linguistics 32:3 ► pp. 421 ff.
Hartmann, Stefan
2021. Diachronic Cognitive Linguistics. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association 9:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Fischer, Olga
2020. What Role Do Iconicity and Analogy Play in Grammaticalization?. In The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, ► pp. 314 ff.
Aarts, Bas
2019. WhatFor?. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 54 ff.
Adamson, Sylvia
2019. Misreading and Language Change: A Foray into Qualitative Historical Linguistics. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 210 ff.
Allen, Cynthia L.
2019. The Definite Article in Old English: Evidence from Ælfric’sGrammar. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 130 ff.
Brinton, Laurel J.
2019. That’s Luck, If You Ask Me: The Rise of an Intersubjective Comment Clause. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 190 ff.
Börjars, Kersti & Nigel Vincent
2019. Modelling Step Change: The History ofWill-Verbs in Germanic. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 283 ff.
Fischer, Olga & Hella Olbertz
2019. The Role Played by Analogy in Processes of Language Change: The Case of EnglishHave-toCompared to SpanishTener-que. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 253 ff.
Heller, Benedikt & Benedikt Szmrecsanyi
2019. Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 315 ff.
2019. The Conjunctionandin Phrasal and Clausal Structures in theOld Bailey Corpus. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 234 ff.
Los, Bettelou
2019. How Patterns Spread: TheTo-Infinitival Complement as a Case of Diffusional Change, or‘To-Infinitives, and Beyond!’. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 149 ff.
Mair, Christian
2019. American English: No Written Standard before the Twentieth Century?. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 336 ff.
McColm, Dan & Graeme Trousdale
2019. Whatever Happened toWhatever?. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 81 ff.
Miura, Ayumi
2019. Me Liketh/LothethbutI Loue/Hate: Impersonal/Non-Impersonal Boundaries in Old and Middle English. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 170 ff.
Payne, John
2019. What Is Special about Pronouns?. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 25 ff.
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs
2019. Are Comparative Modals Converging or Diverging in English? Different Answers from the Perspectives of Grammaticalisation and Constructionalisation. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 105 ff.
Yáñez-Bouza, Nuria, Emma Moore, Linda van Bergen & Willem B. Hollmann
2019. Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present. In Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax, ► pp. 1 ff.
Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Emma Moore, Linda van Bergen & Willem B. Hollmann
2019. Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax,
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