Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change

Name: Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change
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Evie Coussé Ferdinand von Mengden(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 10. Juli 2014

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Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of content
Introduction
1. Original context of the notion 'usage-based'
2. The interplay between usage and grammar
3. From a cognition-centred to a communication-centred usage-based perspective
4. Usage, variation, and change
5. Overview of the contributions
References
Part 1. Challenging mainstream modelsof language change
Does innovation need reanalysis?
1. Introduction
2. Reanalysis
3. Problems
3.1 Abruptness
3.2 Ambiguity
4. Innovation
4.1 Innovation through analogy
4.2 Innovation through other mechanisms
4.3 Structural indeterminacy
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
On cognition and communication in usage-based models of language change
1. Introduction
2. Usage events, linguistic structure and the 'ontology of observing'
3. Models of communication
4. The primacy of meaning
5. The linguistic sign
6. Entrenchment, system history and the role of frequency
7. Dynamic stability: feedback, attractors and Eigenwerte
8. Innovation theory and actuation/actualisation
9. Variation and Diffusion
Conclusion and outlook
References
Part 2. The role of usage in semantic change
From inferential to mirative
1. Introduction
1.1 Background on Yurakaré
1.2 Structure of the paper
2. A usage- and interaction-based approach to semantic change
3. Data and method
4. Evidentiality and mirativity
5. The Yurakaré inferential evidential =tiba
5.1 Evidentiality in Yurakaré
5.2 The inferential reading
5.3 Use in confirmation requests
5.4 Confirmation requests with a small inferential step
5.5 Use in reconfirmation requests
5.6 Use in mirative responses
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
References
Abbreviations
Conversational transcript
Glosses
The motivation for using English suspended dangling participles
1. Introduction
2. Semantics of the dangling participial construction in English
3. Subjective and intersubjective meanings of some suspended dangling participles: The rise of new constructional meanings
3.1 Considering
3.1.1 Characteristics of the main clause
3.1.2 Omitted Object of Considering
3.2 Moving on: Guiding the hearer's attention
3.3 The Intersubjectivity of the suspended dangling participial construction: A case of constructionalization
3.4 The subjectivity-intersubjectivity continuum
3.5 Degree of intersubjectivity
4. Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
The nature of speaker creativity in linguistic innovation
1. Introduction
2. Terminological problems
3. Speaker creativity in linguistic innovation
4. The relationship between speaker creativity and its linguistic instantiations
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgment
References
Part 3. The role of usage and structurein language change
Reanalysis and gramma(ticaliza)tion of constructions
1. Introduction
1.1 Basic assumptions, hypotheses and research questions
1.1.1 Basic assumptions
1.1.2. Hypotheses
1.1.3. Research questions
1.2. Corpus
1.3. Outline of the paper
2. Reanalysis A & B (1): From subordinate to deictic relative construction
2.1. Characteristics of the deictic relative construction
2.2. The origin of the deictic relative construction
3. Reanalysis A & B (2), the aspectual progressive feature and the actualization of the deictic relative
3.1. The progressive nature of the deictic relative
3.2. The actualization process with 'voir'
3.2.1. Middle French
3.2.2. Classical and Modern French
3.3. Summary
4. Reanalysis A & (B &) C: Voici and voilà
4.1 Origin of voici and voilà
4.2. Characteristics of voici and voilà + the deictic relative construction
4.3. The actualization process
4.4. Summary
4.5 Discussion
5. Conclusion
References
Sources for empirical data
Constructional change, paradigmatic structure and the orientation of usage processes
1. Introduction
2. The descriptive issue: Danish IO constructions
2.1 A preliminary characterisation of the change of the IO in Danish
2.2 Research questions
3. Semantic roles and the IO-construction: The content description of constructions
4. Syntagms and paradigms
5. Reflexive free indirect objects
6. The paradigm of the 18th century IO
6.1 The paradigmatic organisation of the 18th century IO
6.2 Finnish and Danish IOs compared
6.3 The role of markedness
6.4 Comparing 18th century Danish to the modern language
6.5 Invariance and prototypicality
7. The verbs skaffe and købe: Some details of 19th and 20th century usage
7.1 Skaffe
7.2 Købe
8. Lexical recategorisations
7.1 Change of valency as a consequence of constructional change
7.2 Orienting lexical change on the background of the structure of constructions
9. Conclusion
Sources
References
Filling empty distinctions of expression with content
1. Introduction
1.1 Usage and structure
1.2 Grammaticalization
1.3 Reanalysis
1.4 Empty distinctions
2. Case study 1: Old High German umlaut
3. Case study 2: Polish masculine nominative plural
3.1 Data
3.2 Interpretation
4. Case study 3: quantification in Russian
5. Conclusion
Sources
References
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