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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 6
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Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 6.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This title develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualise grammaticalisation and lexicalisation. The authors show that language change proceeds by micro-steps involving every aspect of grammar including pragmatics and discourse functions. |
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Cover; Constructionalization and Constructional Changes; Copyright; Contents; Series preface; Acknowledgements; Figures and tables; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; Inventory of notation; Data bases and electronic corpora; 1: The Framework; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Constructional approaches to language; 1.2.1 Berkeley Construction Grammar; 1.2.2 Sign-Based Construction Grammar; 1.2.3 Cognitive Construction Grammar; 1.2.4 Radical Construction Grammar; 1.2.5 Cognitive Grammar; 1.2.6 Our representation of constructions; 1.3 Networks and construction grammar |
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1.4 Constructions and factors relevant to them1.4.1 Constructions characterized; 1.4.2 Schematicity, productivity, and compositionality; 1.4.2.1 Schematicity; 1.4.2.2 Productivity; 1.4.2.3 Compositionality; 1.5 A constructional view of change; 1.5.1 A characterization and example of constructionalization; 1.5.2 Constructional changes; 1.5.3 The relation of constructional changes to constructionalization; 1.5.4 Instantaneous constructionalization; 1.6 Diachronic work particularly relevant to this book; 1.6.1 'Construction' as used in earlier historical linguistics; 1.6.2 Grammaticalization |
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1.6.3 Lexicalization1.6.4 Mechanisms of change; 1.6.4.1 Neoanalysis ('reanalysis'); 1.6.4.2 Analogization ('analogy'); 1.6.5 Work on diachronic construction grammar; 1.7 Evidence; 1.8 Summary and outline of the book; 2: A Usage-Based Approach to Sign Change; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Usage-based models; 2.2.1 Storage as a unit; 2.2.2 Sanction; 2.3 Networks in a usage-based model; 2.3.1 The relationship between networks, language processing, and language learning; 2.3.2 Spreading activation; 2.3.3 Implications for 'analogy'; 2.4 Types of links; 2.4.1 Relational links; 2.4.2 Inheritance links |
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2.5 Growth, obsolescence, and reconfiguration in a network2.5.1 The life-cycle of constructions; 2.5.1.1 Growth at the margins; 2.5.1.2 Staying at the margins; 2.5.1.3 Marginalization and loss of a construction; 2.5.2 Reconfiguration of links; 2.6 Categories, gradience, and gradualness; 2.7 A case study: the development of the way-construction revisited; 2.7.1 The way-construction in PDE; 2.7.2 Precursors of the way-construction; 2.7.3 Constructionalization of the way-construction; 2.7.4 Further expansion of the way-construction; 2.7.5 Growth of the way-construction in a network |
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2.7.6 The status of the way-construction on the lexical-grammatical gradient2.8 Summary and some questions; 3: Grammatical Constructionalization; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Approaches to grammaticalization; 3.2.1 Grammaticalization as reduction and increased dependency; 3.2.2 Grammaticalization as expansion; 3.2.3 The interconnectedness of the GR and GE approaches; 3.3 A constructional approach to directionality; 3.3.1 Increase in productivity; 3.3.2 Increase in schematicity; 3.3.3 Decrease in compositionality |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English language -- History.
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English language. |
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History. |
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Linguistic change.
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Linguistic change. |
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Reconstruction (Linguistics)
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Reconstruction (Linguistics) |
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Construction grammar.
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Construction grammar. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Trousdale, Graeme, 1971- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. Constructionalization and constructional changes 9780199679898 (OCoLC)858004956 |
| ISBN |
9780191669491 (electronic book) |
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0191669490 (electronic book) |
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9780191760075 (ebook) |
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0191760072 (ebook) |
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9780199679898 |
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0199679894 |
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