
Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 12. October 2021
Book
Hardback
251 pages
978-90-272-0949-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality. Its main goal is to show how constructional analyses can help us address some of the long-standing questions that have informed discussions of modal expressions and their development, and to illustrate the processes that are involved in these developments on the basis of data from languages such as English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, and Japanese. The studies in this volume are organized around three interrelated topics. The first of these concerns the organization of modal constructions in a network. A second focus area of the studies in this volume concerns the developmental pathways that modal constructions follow diachronically. The third topic that ties the contributions of this volume together is the contrast between constructionalization and constructional change.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0949-8 (9789027209498)
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Hilpert Martin Hilpert
Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar
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Universite de Neuchatel
Universite de Lille
Universite de Lille