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Author Hilpert, Martin.

Title Germanic future constructions : a usage-based approach to language change / Martin Hilpert.

Publication Info. Amsterdam, NL : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Constructional approaches to language ; v. 7
Constructional approaches to language ; v. 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Germanic Future Constructions; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Theory and methodology; Comparing future constructions in a single language; Cross-linguistic comparisons; Collexemes and grammaticalization paths; The futurate present; Conclusions; References; Notes; Index; The series Constructional Approaches to Language.
Summary This study offers a Construction Grammar approach to the historical development and modern usage of future constructions in English, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. On the basis of corpus data, constructions such as English be going to or German werden are analyzed as symbolic units that convey a range of temporal and modal meanings. A special focus lies on the main verbs that occur with these constructions. Statistical co-occurrence patterns between constructions and lexical items guide the semantic analyses in this study: It is argued that a construction that conventionally occurs with m.
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Subject German language -- Grammar.
German language -- Grammar.
German language.
Construction grammar.
Construction grammar.
German language -- Usage.
German language -- Usage.
Linguistic change.
Linguistic change.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Hilpert, Martin. Germanic future constructions. Amsterdam, NL : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008 (DLC) 2008027277
ISBN 9789027218292 (Cloth)
9027218293 (Cloth)
9789027291035 (electronic book)
9027291039 (electronic book)