On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change
1st Edition
Published on 25. November 2015
V, 227 pages
978-90-272-6800-6 (ISBN)
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In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In fact, the involvement of multiple source constructions is unexceptional. The phenomenon is observed in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. It is seen in language-internal change as well as in contact-induced change. Interactions may obtain between independent but historically related constructions as well as between historically unrelated constructions. The contributions to this volume, on the one hand, present specific case studies on changes involving multiple source constructions, in various domains of grammar and in a variety of languages. On the other hand, they discuss how such changes can be accommodated in current theoretical models of language.
Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 37:3 (2013).
Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 37:3 (2013).
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- On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- On multiple source constructions in language change
- 1. An introduction to multiple source constructions
- 2. MSC in phonology
- 3. MSC in lexical semantics
- 4. MSC in morphology
- 5. MSC in syntax
- 6. Summary of this paper and others in this volume
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Multiple inheritance and constructional change
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Characteristics of the contemporary construction
- 3. A brief summary of relevant aspects of the construction's development
- 3.1 CP constructions involving give
- 3.2 Some features of the recent development of the English DOC
- 3.3 The give +-ing construction - some data
- 4. Network structure and multiple inheritance
- 5. Multiple inheritance and constructional change
- 6. Grammatical and lexical change combined
- 7. Conclusion
- References
- An inquiry into unidirectionality as a foundational element of grammaticalization
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The role played by analogy
- 3. The role played by frequency and economy
- 4. How processing errors may help spot the role played by analogy
- 4.1 Processing errors leading to change on a micro-level
- 4.2 Processing errors leading to change on a macro-level
- 5. A brief conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Serving two masters
- 0. Introduction
- 1. Corpus material
- 2. Word order in Dutch and English
- 3. Dutch wie weet and English who knows
- 3.1 The development of wie weet
- 3.1.1 Epistemic wie weet
- 3.1.2 Intensifying wie weet
- 3.2 The development of who knows
- 3.3 Interpretation
- 4. Transparent free relatives in English and Dutch
- 4.1 Transparent and non-transparent free relatives
- 4.2 The origins of transparent free relatives
- 4.3 Multiple sources: The differential development of transparent free relatives in English and Dutch
- 5. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Multiple sources for the German scandal construction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Properties of the scandal construction
- 3. Previous attempts to find an explanation
- 4. Multiple sources for grammaticalization
- 5. Two sources for the scandal construction
- 5.1 The Perfekt construction and the IPP
- 5.2 The generalization of the zu-infinitive construction
- 5.3 The intertwining of the two source constructions and the scandal
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Sources of auxiliation in the perfects of Europe
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The origins of be and have periphrasis
- 2.1 Lexical sources of the auxiliaries in Indo-European
- 2.2 Introduction of Periphrasis in Ancient Greek
- 2.3 Development of be/have periphrasis in Latin
- 3. The development of Core vs. Periphery in Early Medieval Europe
- 3.1 The Charlemagne Sprachbund
- 3.2 Germanic
- 3.2.1 German as a core language
- 3.2.2 Swedish as a peripheral language
- 3.3 Romance
- 3.3.1 The core and peripheral features of Italian varieties
- 3.3.2 Spanish as a peripheral language
- 4. Conclusions
- References
- Multiple roots of innovations in language contact
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Emergence of multilingual structures in language contact
- 3. Finnic languages in contact: Ingrian Finnish in Estonia
- 3.1 Ingrian Finns in Estonia
- 3.2 Finnish and Estonian grammar in contact
- 3.3 The Ingrian Finnish data
- 4. The multiple sources of a morphological pattern
- 5. Cross-linguistic pleonasms
- 6. Language blending
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- Multiple sources and multiple causes multiply explored
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Suppletion
- 3. Multiple sources in historical phonology
- 4. Multiple sources in historical semantics
- 5. Multiple sources in scholarship: Etymology
- 6. Multiple sources in contact - borrowing and re-borrowing
- 7. Multiple sources and causation
- 8. Multiple sources in all change
- 9. Variation and multiple sources
- 10. Conclusion
- References
- Subject index
