Constructions and Language Change

Constructions and Language Change
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9783110211757
ISBN-13 : 3110211750
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Book Synopsis Constructions and Language Change by : Alexander Bergs

Download or read book Constructions and Language Change written by Alexander Bergs and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic change is highly context-dependent and somehow tied to constructions as linguistic units. This is the first volume to investigate the role of constructions and the potential of constructional approaches in linguistic change. The contributions in this volume comprise both theoretical and empirical studies, all of which are accessible for a general audience. While some contributions explicitly aim at comparing and unifying concepts from both traditional grammatical theories and recent construction grammar approaches, others offer detailed case studies of exemplary problems from a constructional point of view. The papers offer a cross-linguistic perspective and deal with a number of different language families, ranging from Germanic to Austronesian.


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