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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Constructional Approaches to Language,
1573-594X ;
Volume 20
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Constructional approaches to language ; Volume 20.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Category Change from a Constructional Perspective; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Part I. Introduction; Chapter 1. Category change from a constructional perspective: Introduction; 1. Linguistic categories: Discrete or gradient?; 2. Category change; 3. This volume; References; Part II. Category genesis: The creation of new categories; Chapter 2. Category genesis in Chitimacha: A constructional approach; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Preverbs in Chitimacha; 3.1 Ê#x94;ap venitive; 3.2 Ê#x94;apÅ¡ reditive; 3.3 hi andative; 3.4 his adreditive. |
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3.5 kap super-lative3.6 kaË#x90;pÊơs superreditive; 3.7 ka translative; 3.8 kas transreditive; 3.9 ni detransitivizer; 4. The constructionalization of Chitimacha preverbs; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix. Abbreviations; Chapter 3. Derivation without category change: A network-based analysis of diminutive prefixoids in Dutch; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical preliminaries; 2.1 Construction Morphology; 2.2 Constructional networks; 2.3 Inheritance links and lateral links; 3. The present study; 3.1 Sources and method; 3.2 Results; 3.3 Formal and semantic properties. |
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4. A network analysis4.1 Inheritance links and lateral links in the dpc network; 4.2 A multiple source construction?; 5. Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Appendix. Google and COW frequencies; Part III. Category change in syntactic constructions; Chapter 4. Grammaticalization, host-class expansion and category change; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical framework; 2.1 Construction grammar; 2.2 Prototype theory; 3. Host-class expansion in the have and be perfect in Dutch; 4. Host-class expansion in two binominal quantifier constructions in Spanish. |
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4. Host-class expansion in two binominal quantifier constructions in Spanish5. Summary and discussion; 6. Conclusion; References; Chapter 5. Why would anyone take long?: Word classes and Construction Grammar in the history of long; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Data sources; 1.2 Prototypical adjective and adverb; 2. The boundaries of adverb long; 2.1 Between adverb and adjective?; 2.2 Between adverb and adposition?; 2.3 Between adverb and noun?; 3. Excursus on Danish; 4. Theoretical prerequisites; 4.1 Vagueness; 4.2 Decategorialisation; 4.3 Word classes and Construction Grammar. |
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5. A partial constructional history of temporal long6. Closing remarks; Acknowledgements; Data sources and abbreviations; Secondary works; Chapter 6. Category change in the English gerund: Tangled web or fine-tuned constructional network?; 1. Introduction; 2. Goals and methodology; 3. Gerunds: Nominal and clausal deixis; 3.1 Qualitative analysis: Types of deixis; 3.2 Quantitative analysis: The rise of clausal deixis in bare nominal and verbal gerunds; 4. Reflections on category change: Is the verbalization of the gerund a case of constructionalization? |
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Construction grammar.
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Construction grammar. |
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization. |
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Categorial grammar.
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Categorial grammar. |
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Reconstruction (Linguistics)
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Reconstruction (Linguistics) |
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Linguistic change.
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Linguistic change. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Goethem, Kristel van, 1980- editor.
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Norde, Muriel, 1968- editor.
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Coussé, Evie.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Category change from a constructional perspective. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018] 9789027200419 (DLC) 2017055770 |
| ISBN |
9789027264350 (pdf) |
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902726435X |
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9789027200419 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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