This collected volume brings together a wide array of international
linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific
focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based
frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in
context. Although usage-based linguistics emphasizes the centrality
of the discourse context for language usage and cognition, this
insight has not been fully integrated into the investigation of
processes of grammatical variation and change. The structuralist
heritage as well as corpus linguistic methodologies have favoured
de-contextualized analytical perspectives on contemporary and
historical language data and on the mechanisms and processes
guiding grammatical variation and change. From a range of different
perspectives, the contributions to this volume take up the
challenge of contextualization in the investigation of grammatical
variation and change in different stages of English language
history and discuss central theoretical notions such as gradable
grammaticality, motivation in hypervariation, and
hypercharacterization. The book will be relevant to students and
linguists working in the field of diachronic and variational
linguistics and English language history.
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