Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar

Name: Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
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Intro
Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Introduction: The nature of the node and the network - Open questions in Diachronic Construction Grammar
1. Introduction
2. The nodes
2.1 The nature of the node
2.2 Node creation vs node-internal changes
3. The links in the network
3.1 Vertical links
3.2 Horizontal links
3.3 Diachronic change as node-external reconfiguration of the network
4. Beyond current network models
5. Range of phenomena
6. Conclusion
References
The nodes: Creation, change and loss
Constructionalization and the Sorites Paradox: The emergence of the 'into'-causative
1. Introduction
2. Constructionalization and constructional change
3. The 'into'-causative
3.1 Synchronic properties
3.2 Diachronic assumptions
4. Constructional emergence
4.1 Data
4.2 Analysis
5. Discussion
6. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Constructionalization, constructional competition and constructional death: Investigating the demise of Old English POSS DEM constructions
1. Introduction
2. The phenomenon
2.1 Questioning the existence of co-occurrence patterns
2.2 Co-occurrence as a Latin 'calque'
2.3 Additional characteristic features
3. Empirical analysis
3.1 Analyzing the four constructional subtypes
3.1.1 [[DEMinfl]+[POSSinfl]+[ADJinfl]+[CNinfl]]NPdef construction
3.1.2 The [[DEMinfl]+[POSSinfl]+[CNinfl]]NPdef construction
3.1.3 The [[POSSinfl]+[DEMinfl]+[ADJinfl]+[CNinfl]]NPdef construction
3.1.4 [[POSSinfl]+[DEMinfl]+[CNinfl]]NPdef construction
3.2 Testing the variable 'text type' and 'historical period'
4. A constructional sketch
4.1 A constructional family: Nodes in the network
4.2 Constructional loss: Demise of the constructional family
5. Conclusion
References
Manuscripts used
Statistics programs used
The links: Vertical and horizontal relations
(Re)shaping the constructional network: Modeling shifts and reorganizations in the network hierarchy
1. Introduction
2. Tracking constructional changes: Empirical analysis of the Dutch intensifying fake reflexive resultative construction
2.1 Methodology
2.2 Results: Diachronic frequency and productivity increase
3. A dynamic constructional network: Shifts at different levels of abstraction
3.1 Expansion and schematization
3.1.1 Case 1: 'Suf'
3.1.2 Case 2: 'Het vuur uit de sloffen'
3.1.3 Discussion
3.2 Conventionalization and loss
3.2.1 Case 3: 'Wild'
4. Discussion: Challenges in constructional network theory
4.1 Multiple representations
4.2 Other types of links?
4.3 Cognitive reality
5. Conclusion
References
Productivity and schematicity in constructional change
1. Introduction
2. Diachronic Construction Grammar and constructional networks
3. Productivity and schematicity
3.1 Schematicity
3.2 Productivity
3.3 The relation between productivity and schematicity
4. Case study: Abstract uses of the 'way'-construction
5. Conclusion
References
Constructional networks and the development of benefactive ditransitives in English
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
2.1 A constructional taxonomic model
2.2 Accounting for constructional alternations
3. Ditransitives, benefactives, and the benefactive alternation
3.1 Benefactives in Present Day English
3.2 Benefactives in Old and Middle English
4. Data and methodology for a corpus-based study of benefactives in Early Modern English
5. Findings of the corpus study
5.1 All verbs
5.2 Selected benefactive verbs
6. Constructional networks in the history of English
6.1 Modelling the emergence of the English benefactive alternation
6.2 The value of postulating horizontal links
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix 1. Collexemes distinguishing between the DOC and the 'for'-POC in 4 sub-periods of EEBO
Appendix 2. Collexemes distinguishing between the 'for'-POC and the 'to'-POC in 4 sub-periods of EEBO
Allostructions, homostructions or a constructional family? Changes in the network of secondary predicate constructions in Middle English
1. Introduction
2. Secondary predicate constructions in Present-Day English and in the history of English
2.1 Characterisation of secondary predicate constructions in Present-Day English
2.2 Diachronic developments of prepositional secondary predicate constructions in the history of English
3. Allostructions, polysemy and homostructions in the network of secondary predicate constructions
4. Empirical analysis: Methodology
5. Empirical analysis: Results
5.1 Changes in frequency
5.2 The rise of French-based verbs
5.3 Development of semantic differences
6. Changes in the network of prepositional secondary predicates constructions
7. Conclusion
References
Converging variations and the emergence of horizontal links: 'To'-contraction in American English
1. Introduction: Horizontal links and the emergence of schemata
2. 'To'-infinitives and contractions
3. Corpus study 1: The history of non-conventional 'to'-contraction
4. Corpus study 2: Determinants of variation of contracted and full forms in the 20th century
4.1 Determinants of variation
4.1.1 Variables measuring the degree of entrenchment
4.1.2 Variables measuring the degree of conventionalization
4.1.3 Variables relating to both entrenchment and conventionalization
4.2 Modeling the data
4.3 Results
5. Discussion
5.1 Contractions in the constructional network and the emergence of horizontal links
6. Conclusion
References
Appendix. Logistic regression model
Beyond existing models
Paradigms lost - paradigms regained: Paradigms as hyper-constructions
1. Introduction
2. Terminological clarifications
2.1 Grammaticalization versus grammatical change
2.2 Grammaticalization versus constructionalization and constructional change
2.3 Paradigmatization as a crucial feature of grammaticalization
3. Gradience and categorical distinctions
4. Paradigms lost: The status of paradigms in constructional models
5. Paradigms regained: Integrating paradigmatic knowledge into the constructicon
5.1 Paradigm ? paradigmatic relation
5.2 The syntagmatic extension of paradigms
5.3 The paradigm as a holistic entity / a hyper-construction
6. Observations concerning the existence of paradigms in language
6.1 Implicational relations
6.2 Layering and suppletion
6.3 Paradigm pressure
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Putting connections centre stage in diachronic Construction Grammar
1. Introduction
2. Connections: Horizontal vs. vertical, syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic
3. Connections in grammatical constructionalization: [BE 'going to' INF]
3.1 Timing of the change in the literature
3.2 Empirical study: Operationalization & methodology
3.3 Semantic shifts in syntagmatic patterns
3.3.1 Topicalization
3.3.2 Passives
3.4 Interpretation of results: The birth of a construction
4. Connections in paradigm crystallization: DO and the modals
4.1 Analogical attraction
4.2 Operationalizing paradigm crystallization
4.2.1 Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)
4.2.2 Model design and training
4.3 All-DO control group
4.4 Shifting patterns of similarity
4.5 Interpretation, limitations and future work
5. Discussion
Acknowledgments
References
Index

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