Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/KulUI5D Constructions and Language Change By: Alexander Bergs Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton Print ISBN: 9783110198669, 3110198665 eText ISBN: 9783110211757, 3110211750 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2008 Format: PDF Available from $ 149.99 USD SKU 9783110211757 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.
