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Published 2015.
Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new focus to traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how ...
Published 2015.
Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new focus to traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, with what implications for the language system as a whole? This volume offers a broad introduction to the confluence of Construction Grammar and historical syntax, and also detailed case studies of various instances of syntactic change modelled within Construction Grammar. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar as a theory is particularly well-suited to modelling historical changes in morph syntax, and it also documents phenomena that will require a theoretical account within any competing framework of syntactic change.
