Category change from a constructional perspective /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Description:	vi, 314 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Constructional approaches to language, 1573-594X ; volume 20 Constructional approaches to language ; v. 20.
Subject:	Construction grammar. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization. Categorial grammar. Reconstruction (Linguistics) Linguistic change. Categorial grammar. Construction grammar. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization. Linguistic change. Reconstruction (Linguistics)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11615766

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Other authors / contributors:	Goethem, Kristel van, 1980- editor. Norde, Muriel, 1968- editor. Coussé, Evie, editor. Vanderbawhede, Gudrun, editor.
ISBN:	9789027200419 9027200416 9789027264350
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties, e.g. abrupt versus gradual changes, morphological versus syntactic changes, or context-independent versus context-sensitive changes. The purpose of this collection of papers is to explore the concepts of linguistic category and category change from the perspective of Construction Grammar. Using data from a variety of languages, the authors address a number of themes that are central to current theorizing about category change, such as the question of whether or not categories should be considered discrete entities, how new categories arise, or whether category change can be considered as the emergence of a new construction, i.e. a new form-meaning paring. The novel approach advanced in this volume will be of interest to historical linguists as well as to general linguists working on the nature of linguistic categories.
Other form:	Online version: Category change from a constructional perspective. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018] 9789027264350

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Acknowledgements
2. Partnbsp;I. Introduction
3. Chapternbsp;1. Category change from a constructional perspective
4. Partnbsp;II. Category genesis
5. Chapternbsp;2. Category genesis in Chitimacha
6. Chapternbsp;3. Derivation without category change
7. Partnbsp;III. Category change in syntactic constructions
8. Chapternbsp;4. Grammaticalization, host-class expansion and category change
9. Chapternbsp;5. Why would anyone take long ?
10. Chapternbsp;6. Category change in the English gerund
11. Chapternbsp;7. The emergence of a new adverbial downtoner
12. Partnbsp;IV. Category change in morphological constructions
13. Chapternbsp;8. Category change in construction morphology
14. Chapter 9. Evaluative morphology in German, Dutch and Swedish
15. Chapternbsp;10. Constructional change on the contentful-procedural gradient
16. Partnbsp;V. Discussion
17. Chapternbsp;11. Change in category membership from the perspective of construction grammar
18. Construction index
19. Subject index

Category change from a constructional perspective /

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