Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar

Name: Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar
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Hilpert Martin Hilpert(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen am 12. Oktober 2021

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Intro
Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents
Modality in Diachronic Construction Grammar: Long-standing questions, new perspectives
1. Introduction
2. The contributions in this volume
3. Concluding remarks
References
Contractions, constructions and constructional change: Investigating the constructionhood of English modal contractions from a diachronic perspective
1. Introduction
2. English modal verb contractions across textbooks, grammars and corpus-based studies
3. The constructionhood of modal contractions: Three case studies
3.1 Formal properties of contracted modal cxns
3.2 Corpus selection and outline for data exploration
3.3 Relative frequency distribution across time
3.4 Changes in the collostructional behavior of the alternations
3.5 Modelling speakers' choice between a contracted modal cxn and its full form
4. From contractions to constructions
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
Corpora, software, packages and scripts
References
Exploring relative degrees of auxiliarization empirically in German modal constructions with wissen and verstehen: Does host class expansion provide enough evidence?
1. Introduction
2. Problem statement: Host class expansion in grammaticalization studies
3. Case study
3.1 Constructions of dynamic modality with wissen and verstehen
3.2 Data
3.3 Response and fixed-effect variables
3.4 Mixed-effects model and random-effect variables
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusion
Abbreviations
References
Grammaticalization of verdienen into an auxiliary marker of deontic modality: An item-driven usage-based approach
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical background
2.1 Grammaticalization and constructional concepts
2.2 Deontic modality
3. Methods
3.1 Data and identification of constructions with verdienen
3.2 Simple collexeme analysis
3.3 Semantic classification of strongly attracted lexemes
4. Results
5. Discussion
Lex1 and Lex2
Movement along the grammaticalization path from LEX to GRAM
Gram1 and Gram2
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix
The diachrony of Galician certamente and seguramente: A case of grammatical constructionalization
1. Introduction
2. Data and analytical categories
2.1 Manner uses
2.2 Epistemic uses
2.3 The strengthening use
2.4 The pragmatic use
2.5 A note on syntax
2.6 Ambiguities
3. Corpus findings
4. A constructionalization approach
4.1 The emergence of (inter)subjective adverbs
4.2 Seguramente: A new probability marker
5. Final remarks
Acknowledgements
Funding
References
Unfolding constructions: Postmodal auxiliaries in mirative complement patterns
1. Introduction
1.1 Objectives of the study
1.2 Data
2. Postmodality and mental accessing of complements
2.1 The modal and postmodal semantics of pouvoir and pitää
2.2 Interclausal chains
3. Interplay with the lexical semantics of the matrix
3.1 Pouvoirpm and pitääpm as markers of going-beyond-epistemic-limits
3.2 Pouvoirpm and pitääpm as markers of going-beyond-axiological-limits
4. Procedural meaning and interclausal cohesion
4.1 From modal possibility and necessity to postmodal asymmetrical relationships
4.2 The evolution of pouvoirpm and pitääpm as relational strategies
5. Discussion
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
The data collections used
References
Horizontal links within and between paradigms: The constructional network of reported directives in German
1. Introduction
2. Reported directives in German
3. Reported directives as a constructional network: Vertical and horizontal links
4. Data
5. Diachronic changes in horizontal links
5.1 Within the network of reported directives: Strengthening of horizontal connections
5.2 Paradigmatic opposition between reported statements and reported directives
6. Conclusions
References
Constructionalization of Japanese koto imperatives
1. Introduction
2. Japanese koto imperatives
2.1 Semantic properties of koto imperatives
2.2 Syntactic properties
3. Koto imperatives as an instance of constructionalization
4. Suspended clauses
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
References
Index

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