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In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target constructio
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Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.
Constructions and Environments
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This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive verb constructions in Old and Middle English. Peter Petré analyzes: �
Individuality in Language Change
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Authors: Lynn Anthonissen
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Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation opera