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Author: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-10
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1108419569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of English, both past and present, methodologically and theoretically.
Author: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-06-09
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9781108411424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of approaches to grammatical categories and categorial change, constructions and constructional change, and comparative and typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on the analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of the study of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both theoretically and empirically, from Old English through to the present day. The result is a body of research which will add substantially to the current study of the syntax of the English language, by stimulating further research in the field.
Author: Marianne Hundt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-08-14
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1107032792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing increasingly sophisticated databases, this volume explores grammatical usage from the Late Modern period in a broad context.
Author: William Croft
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-09-25
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 900436353X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change.
Author: Nuria Yáñez-Bouza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781108419567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of approaches to grammatical categories and categorial change, constructions and constructional change, and comparative and typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on the analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of the study of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both theoretically and empirically, from Old English through to the present day. The result is a body of research which will add substantially to the current study of the syntax of the English language, by stimulating further research in the field.
Author: Martin Hilpert
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-03-17
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0748675868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstruction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge can be fully described as knowledge of constructions, which are defined as symbolic units that connect a linguistic form with meaning.
Author: Kristel Van Goethem
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 902726435X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCategory change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties, e.g. abrupt versus gradual changes, morphological versus syntactic changes, or context-independent versus context-sensitive changes. The purpose of this collection of papers is to explore the concepts of linguistic category and category change from the perspective of Construction Grammar. Using data from a variety of languages, the authors address a number of themes that are central to current theorizing about category change, such as the question of whether or not categories should be considered discrete entities, how new categories arise, or whether category change can be considered as the emergence of a new construction, i.e. a new form-meaning pairing. The novel approach advanced in this volume will be of interest to historical linguists as well as to general linguists working on the nature of linguistic categories.
Author: Hendrik De Smet
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2015-11-15
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9027268002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In fact, the involvement of multiple source constructions is unexceptional. The phenomenon is observed in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. It is seen in language-internal change as well as in contact-induced change. Interactions may obtain between independent but historically related constructions as well as between historically unrelated constructions. The contributions to this volume, on the one hand, present specific case studies on changes involving multiple source constructions, in various domains of grammar and in a variety of languages. On the other hand, they discuss how such changes can be accommodated in current theoretical models of language. Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 37:3 (2013).
Author: Martin Hilpert
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781107301344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology into a new way of studying language change. Constructions are generalizations over remembered exemplars of language use. These exemplars are stored with all their formal and functional properties, yielding constructional generalizations that contain many parameters of variation. Over time, as patterns of language use are changing, the generalizations are changing with them. This book illustrates the workings of constructional change with three corpus-based studies that reveal patterns of change at several levels of linguistic structure, ranging from allomorphy to word formation and to syntax. Taken together, the results strongly motivate the use of construction grammar in research on diachronic language change. This new perspective has wide-ranging consequences for the way historical linguists think about language change. It will be of particular interest to linguists working on morpho-syntax, sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics"--Publisher's website.
Author: Rolf Kreyer
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9783631559611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an overview of basic syntactic categories, analytical methods and theoretical frameworks that are needed for a comprehensive and systematic description and analysis of the syntax of English as it is spoken and written today. It is therefore useful for students of the English language but also for teachers who are looking for an overview of traditional syntactic analysis. In addition, the book explores various related aspects, such as syntactic variation, the relation between syntax and semantics, and psycholinguistic approaches to syntax. One focus throughout is to introduce the reader to the 'art' or science of syntactic argumentation. Almost all of the examples that are found in this book are drawn from language corpora - each syntactic concept, therefore, is exemplified by authentic language data.
