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Constructional Change in English: Developments in Allomorphy, Word Formation, and Syntax

Martin Hilpert 2013 ;ISBN: 1107013488 ;ISBN: 9781107552074 ;ISBN: 1107552079 ;ISBN: 9781107013483 ;EISBN: 1139004204 ;EISBN: 9781139004206 ;EISBN: 9781107306424 ;EISBN: 1107306426 ;EISBN: 9781107234925 ;EISBN: 1107234921 ;EISBN: 1107301343 ;EISBN: 9781107301344 ;DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139004206 ;OCLC: 828869670

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  • Title:
    Constructional Change in English: Developments in Allomorphy, Word Formation, and Syntax
  • Author: Hilpert, Martin
  • Subjects: Construction grammar ; English language ; Grammar ; Linguistic change
  • Description: Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology into a new way of studying language change. Constructions are generalizations over remembered exemplars of language use. These exemplars are stored with all their formal and functional properties, yielding constructional generalizations that contain many parameters of variation. Over time, as patterns of language use are changing, the generalizations are changing with them. This book illustrates the workings of constructional change with three corpus-based studies that reveal patterns of change at several levels of linguistic structure, ranging from allomorphy to word formation and to syntax. Taken together, the results strongly motivate the use of construction grammar in research on diachronic language change. This new perspective has wide-ranging consequences for the way historical linguists think about language change. It will be of particular interest to linguists working on morpho-syntax, sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics.
  • Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 250
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 1107013488
    ISBN: 9781107552074
    ISBN: 1107552079
    ISBN: 9781107013483
    EISBN: 1139004204
    EISBN: 9781139004206
    EISBN: 9781107306424
    EISBN: 1107306426
    EISBN: 9781107234925
    EISBN: 1107234921
    EISBN: 1107301343
    EISBN: 9781107301344
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139004206
    OCLC: 828869670
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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