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Constructionalization and Constructional Changes (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,481
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Constructionalization and Constructional Changes (Hardcover): Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale

Constructionalization and Constructional Changes (Hardcover)

Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale

Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 6

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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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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 6
Release date: November 2013
First published: 2014
Authors: Elizabeth Closs Traugott • Graeme Trousdale
Dimensions: 238 x 162 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-967989-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure > General
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LSN: 0-19-967989-4
Barcode: 9780199679898

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