Studies of grammaticization often reveal skewed distributions of lexical items in grammaticizing constructions, suggesting the presence of prefabs using these constructions. We examine here the role of prefabs in the grammaticization of can in English and the progressive estar ‘be (located)’ + V-ndo (Gerund) in Spanish. The data suggest that prefabs play a role in advancing formal and semantic change. We argue that (1) prefabs are ahead of the general construction in unit-hood status in early stages and thus demote the independent lexical status of the emerging grams, and (2) in their association with semantic classes of which they are the most frequent member, prefabs promote the productivity of the general construction. The evidence shows that prefabs maintain associations with the related general construction.
2012. Grammatical relation probability: How usage patterns shape analogy. Language Variation and Change 24:3 ► pp. 317 ff.
Buerki, Andreas
2020. Formulaic Language and Linguistic Change,
Bybee, Joan & Carol Lynn Moder
2024. Interaction and conventionalized expressions create the contexts for bleaching and constructional expansion: the case of GRAB. Folia Linguistica 0:0
Cacoullos, Rena Torres
2011. Variation and Grammaticalization. In The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics, ► pp. 148 ff.
Contreras Kallens, Pablo & Morten H. Christiansen
2022. Models of Language and Multiword Expressions. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 5
Coupe, Alexander R.
2018. Grammaticalization processes in the languages of South Asia. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 189 ff.
2018. Grammaticalization in the languages of Europe. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 79 ff.
Delgado-Díaz, Gibran J.
2024. The imperfect progressive in Puerto Rican Spanish: a case of language contact or grammaticalization?. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2024:286 ► pp. 137 ff.
2023.
Tomorrow I’ll go (a) shopping: on the history of the Expeditionary Go construction and its relation to the absentive. Folia Linguistica 57:s44-s1 ► pp. 1 ff.
GAHL, SUSANNE
2023. Usage‐Based Approaches to Communication Disorders. In The Handbook of Usage‐Based Linguistics, ► pp. 393 ff.
Garachana Camarero, Mar
2016. Verbos de movimiento y perífrasis verbales en español medieval: "uviar (a)" + infinitivo. Revista de Historia de la Lengua Española :11 ► pp. 59 ff.
2011. Rutinas léxicas en el cambio gramatical. El caso de las perífrasis deónticas e iterativas. Revista de Historia de la Lengua Española :6 ► pp. 35 ff.
Gonzálvez-García, Francisco
2019. Exploring the pedagogical potential of vertical and horizontal relations in the constructicon:The case of the family of subjective-transitive constructions withdecirin Spanish. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 57:1 ► pp. 121 ff.
Granvik, Anton & Ester Fernández Incógnito
2024. Evaluating the importance of construal for choosing between alternating forms: the case of Spanish change-of-state verbs hacerse and volverse
. Linguistics Vanguard 10:s1 ► pp. 75 ff.
Haig, Geoffrey
2018. Grammaticalization and inflectionalization in Iranian. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 57 ff.
Haspelmath, Martin
2018. Revisiting the anasynthetic spiral. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 97 ff.
Heine, Bernd
2018. Grammaticalization in Africa. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 16 ff.
Hou, Lynn
2022. LOOKing for multi-word expressions in American Sign Language. Cognitive Linguistics 33:2 ► pp. 291 ff.
Johanson, Lars & Éva Á. Csató
2018. Grammaticalization in Turkic. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 146 ff.
Klamer, Marian
2018. Typology and grammaticalization in the Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, and Pantar. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 235 ff.
McWhorter, John H.
2018. Is grammaticalization in creoles different?. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 394 ff.
Mithun, Marianne
2018. Shaping typology through grammaticalization: North America. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 309 ff.
Mollin, Sandra
2013. Pathways of Change in the Diachronic Development of Binomial Reversibility in Late Modern American English. Journal of English Linguistics 41:2 ► pp. 168 ff.
Moyse-Faurie, Claire
2018. Grammaticalization in Oceanic languages. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 282 ff.
Mushin, Ilana
2018. Grammaticalization and typology in Australian Aboriginal languages. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 263 ff.
Heiko Narrog & Bernd Heine
2018. Introduction. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 1 ff.
Heiko Narrog & Bernd Heine
2018. Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective,
Narrog, Heiko, Seongha Rhee & John Whitman
2018. Grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 166 ff.
2021. Grammaticalization and language contact in a discourse-pragmatic change in progress: The spread ofinnitin London English. Language in Society 50:5 ► pp. 723 ff.
PICHLER, HEIKE & STEPHEN LEVEY
2011. In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: general extenders in northeast England. English Language and Linguistics 15:3 ► pp. 441 ff.
Shadrova, Anna, Pia Linscheid, Julia Lukassek, Anke Lüdeling & Sarah Schneider
2021. A Challenge for Contrastive L1/L2 Corpus Studies: Large Inter- and Intra-Individual Variation Across Morphological, but Not Global Syntactic Categories in Task-Based Corpus Data of a Homogeneous L1 German Group. Frontiers in Psychology 12
2012. What Do We (Think We) Know About Formulaic Language? An Evaluation of the Current State of Play. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 32 ► pp. 231 ff.
Zariquiey, Roberto
2018. Diachronic stories of body-part nouns in some language families of South America. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. 350 ff.
2018. Copyright Page. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. iv ff.
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2018. Preface. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. viii ff.
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2018. Series preface. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. vii ff.
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2018. List of abbreviations. In Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, ► pp. ix ff.
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2021. References. In Foundations of Familiar Language, ► pp. 386 ff.
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