Grammar, discourse, context grammar and usage in language variation and change

This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although usage-based linguistics emp...

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Other Authors: Bech, Kristin (Editor), Möhlig-Falke, Ruth (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter, [2019]
Series:Diskursmuster ; Bd. 23.
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Grammar
  • discourse
  • context: Grammatical variation and change and the usage-based perspective / Möhlig-Falke, Ruth / Bech, Kristin
  • Contextualizing Old English noun phrases / Bech, Kristin
  • Syntax, text type, genre and authorial voice in Old English: A data-driven approach / Los, Bettelou / Lubbers, Thijs
  • The intensifier system of the Ormulum and the interplay of micro-level and macro-level contexts in linguistic change / Méndez-Naya, Belén
  • Constructional change across the lifespan: The nominative and infinitive in early modern writers / Anthonissen, Lynn
  • Contextualizing dual-form adverbs in the Old Bailey Corpus: An assessment of semantic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic factors / Möhlig-Falke, Ruth
  • Bridging contexts in the reanalysis of naturally as a sentence adverb: A corpus study / Haumann, Dagmar / Killie, Kristin
  • From parataxis to amalgamation: The emergence of the sentence-final is all construction in the history of American English / Shibasaki, Reijirou
  • The role of context in the entrenchment of new grammatical markers in World Englishes / Seoane, Elena
  • Paradigms, host classes, and ancillariness: A comparison of three approaches to grammatical status / Konvička, Martin
  • The motivated unmotivated: Variation, function and context / De Smet, Hendrik
  • Grammar in context: On the role of hypercharacterization in language variation and change / López-Couso, María José
  • List of contributors
  • Index