Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

Autor: Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Oxford University Press

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Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on constr...

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Autor

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2013

strony

304

EAN

9780199679898

ISBN

0199679894

Enbook ID

02656392

Wydawca

Oxford University Press

Waga

600

Wymiary

243 x 162 x 24

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Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the level of the phrase, clause, and complex sentence. Until now it has been mainly synchronic. The authors use it to reconceptualize grammaticalization (the process by which verbs like to have lose semantic content and gain grammatical functions, or word order moves from discourse-prominent to syntax-prominent), and lexicalization (in which idioms become fixed and complex words simplified). Basing their argument on the notions that language is made up of language-specific form-meaning pairings and that there is a gradient between lexical and grammatical constructions, Professor Traugott and Dr Trousdale suggest that language change proceeds by micro-steps that involve closely related changes in syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse functions. They illustrate their exposition with numerous English examples drawn from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, many of which they discuss in depth. The book is organized in six chapters. The first outlines the approach and the questions to be addressed. The second reviews usage-based models of language change. The third considers the relation between grammatical constructionalization and grammaticalization. Chapters 4 and 5 focus respectively on lexical constructionalization and the role of context. The final chapter draws the authors' arguments together and outlines prospects for further research. Constructionalization and Constructional Changes propounds and demonstrates a new and productive approach to historical linguistics.

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