Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VI, 314 Seiten)
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Diagramme
ISBN:
9789027264350
Series Statement:
Constructional approaches to language volume 20
Content:
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 Êap venitive -- 3.2 ÊapÅ¡ reditive -- 3.3 hi andative -- 3.4 his adreditive -- 3.5 kap super-lative -- 3.6 kaËpʼs 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 -- 4. A network analysis -- 4.1 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.
Content:
4. Host-class expansion in two binominal quantifier constructions in Spanish -- 5. 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 -- 5. A partial constructional history of temporal long -- 6. 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? -- 4. Reflections on category change: Is the verbalization of the gerund a case of constructionalization? -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 7. The emergence of a new adverbial downtoner: Constructional change and constructionalization of Dutch [ver van X] and [verre van X] âfar from Xâ -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Downtoners -- 3. [ver van X] and [verre van X] in present-day Dutch -- 3.1 Method -- 3.2 Semantics -- 3.3 Complementation patterns -- 4. Diachronic developments -- 4.1 Method -- 4.2 [ver van X] -- 4.3 [verre van X] -- 4.4 Comparison [ver van X] and [verre van X] -- 5. Category change, constructional change and constructionalization -- 6. Conclusions
Content:
Acknowledgements -- References -- Online sources -- Part IV. Category change in morphological constructions -- Chapter 8. Category change in construction morphology -- 1. Introduction: Override constructions -- 2. Coercion by morphological constructions -- 2.1 Coercion in word formation: change of semantic class -- 2.2 Category change through inflection -- 3. Construction-dependent morphology and category change -- 3.1 The op het A-e af construction -- 3.2 The aan de [V]N construction -- 3.3 The [voor de N]PP-construction -- 3.4 Category change in verbal constructions -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 9. Evaluative morphologyâ in German, Dutch and Swedish: Constructional Networks and the Loci of Change -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical preliminaries -- 2.1 Sources of adjectival evaluatives -- 2.2 Evaluative prefixoids -- 2.3 Affixoids in construction morphology -- 2.4 Abstract subschemata for evaluative compounds -- 3. Evaluatives in German, Dutch and Swedish -- 3.1 Denominal evaluatives and nouns -- 3.2 Intensification of adjectives and adverbs -- 3.3 Evaluative âloan prefixesâ -- 4. Constructional networks -- 4.1 Paradigmatic relationships -- 4.2 Source constructions and formal variation -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 10. Constructional change on the contentful-procedural gradient: The case of the -idz(o) construction in Griko -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The suffix âidz(o): Synchronic variation and diachronic change -- 2.1 Verbalisers in Standard Modern Greek and Griko -- 2.2 The âidz(o) verbs -- 2.3 Criteria for grammaticality of âidz(o) -- 2.4 Paradigmatic interference and âidz(o) -- 3. Grammaticalisation within morphology: From derivation to inflection -- 3.1 Defining grammaticalisation -- 3.2 From derivational morphemes to inflectional class markers
Content:
4. A âhybrid constructionâ between derivation and inflection -- 4.1 Grammaticalisation as constructionalisation -- 4.2 [X-idz(o)] as a hybrid construction -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Primary sources -- Part V. Discussion -- Chapter 11. Change in category membership from the perspective of construction grammar: A commentary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Categories: Creation and change -- 2.1 The creation of a new category -- 2.2 Category restructuring -- 3. Gradualness -- 4. The constructional network -- 4.1 Links between constructions -- 4.2 Constructionalization, constructional changes and categories -- 5. Concluding comments -- References -- Construction index -- Subject index
Note:
"This collection of papers grew out of a two-day workshop on category change from a constructtional perspective, organised by Muriel Norde and Kristel Van Goethem at the 8th International Conference on Construction Grammar at the University of Osnabrück, on September 4-5, 2014" Acknowledgements
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027200419
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789027200419
Language:
English
Keywords:
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Vanderbauwhede, Gudrun 1985-
