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Subject(s)

• Construction grammar [Browse]
• Grammar, Comparative and general—Grammaticalization [Browse]
• Categorial grammar [Browse]
• Reconstruction (Linguistics) [Browse]
• Linguistic change [Browse]

Editor

• Van Goethem, Kristel [Browse]

Series

• Constructional approaches to language ; Volume 20. [More in this series]
• Constructional Approaches to Language, 1573-594X ; Volume 20

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Intro
• Category Change from a Constructional Perspective
• Editorial page
• Title page
• LCC data
• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• Part I. Introduction
• Chapter 1. Category change from a constructional perspective: Introduction
• 1. Linguistic categories: Discrete or gradient?
• 2. Category change
• 3. This volume
• References
• Part II. Category genesis: The creation of new categories
• Chapter 2. Category genesis in Chitimacha: A constructional approach
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Background
• 3. Preverbs in Chitimacha
• 3.1 ʔap venitive
• 3.2 ʔapš reditive
• 3.3 hi andative
• 3.4 his adreditive
• 3.5 kap super-lative
• 3.6 kaːpʼs superreditive
• 3.7 ka translative
• 3.8 kas transreditive
• 3.9 ni detransitivizer
• 4. The constructionalization of Chitimacha preverbs
• 5. Conclusion
• Appendix. Abbreviations
• Chapter 3. Derivation without category change: A network-based analysis of diminutive prefixoids in Dutch
• 2. Theoretical preliminaries
• 2.1 Construction Morphology
• 2.2 Constructional networks
• 2.3 Inheritance links and lateral links
• 3. The present study
• 3.1 Sources and method
• 3.2 Results
• 3.3 Formal and semantic properties
• 4. A network analysis
• 4.1 Inheritance links and lateral links in the dpc network
• 4.2 A multiple source construction?
• 5. Concluding remarks
• Appendix. Google and COW frequencies
• Part III. Category change in syntactic constructions
• Chapter 4. Grammaticalization, host-class expansion and category change
• 2. Theoretical framework
• 2.1 Construction grammar
• 2.2 Prototype theory
• 3. Host-class expansion in the have and be perfect in Dutch
• 4. Host-class expansion in two binominal quantifier constructions in Spanish.
• 4. Host-class expansion in two binominal quantifier constructions in Spanish
• 5. Summary and discussion
• 6. Conclusion
• Chapter 5. Why would anyone take long?: Word classes and Construction Grammar in the history of long
• 1.1 Data sources
• 1.2 Prototypical adjective and adverb
• 2. The boundaries of adverb long
• 2.1 Between adverb and adjective?
• 2.2 Between adverb and adposition?
• 2.3 Between adverb and noun?
• 3. Excursus on Danish
• 4. Theoretical prerequisites
• 4.1 Vagueness
• 4.2 Decategorialisation
• 4.3 Word classes and Construction Grammar
• 5. A partial constructional history of temporal long
• 6. Closing remarks
• Data sources and abbreviations
• Secondary works
• Chapter 6. Category change in the English gerund: Tangled web or fine-tuned constructional network?
• 2. Goals and methodology
• 3. Gerunds: Nominal and clausal deixis
• 3.1 Qualitative analysis: Types of deixis
• 3.2 Quantitative analysis: The rise of clausal deixis in bare nominal and verbal gerunds
• 4. Reflections on category change: Is the verbalization of the gerund a case of constructionalization?
• Chapter 7. The emergence of a new adverbial downtoner: Constructional change and constructionalization of Dutch [ver van X] and [verre van X] 'far from X'
• 2. Downtoners
• 3. [ver van X] and [verre van X] in present-day Dutch
• 3.1 Method
• 3.2 Semantics
• 3.3 Complementation patterns
• 4. Diachronic developments
• 4.1 Method
• 4.2 [ver van X]
• 4.3 [verre van X]
• 4.4 Comparison [ver van X] and [verre van X]
• 5. Category change, constructional change and constructionalization
• 6. Conclusions.
• Online sources
• Part IV. Category change in morphological constructions
• Chapter 8. Category change in construction morphology
• 1. Introduction: Override constructions
• 2. Coercion by morphological constructions
• 2.1 Coercion in word formation: change of semantic class
• 2.2 Category change through inflection
• 3. Construction-dependent morphology and category change
• 3.1 The op het A-e af construction
• 3.2 The aan de [V]N construction
• 3.3 The [voor de N]PP-construction
• 3.4 Category change in verbal constructions
• 4. Conclusions
• Chapter 9. Evaluative morphology' in German, Dutch and Swedish: Constructional Networks and the Loci of Change
• 2.1 Sources of adjectival evaluatives
• 2.2 Evaluative prefixoids
• 2.3 Affixoids in construction morphology
• 2.4 Abstract subschemata for evaluative compounds
• 3. Evaluatives in German, Dutch and Swedish
• 3.1 Denominal evaluatives and nouns
• 3.2 Intensification of adjectives and adverbs
• 3.3 Evaluative 'loan prefixes'
• 4. Constructional networks
• 4.1 Paradigmatic relationships
• 4.2 Source constructions and formal variation
• 5. Conclusions
• Chapter 10. Constructional change on the contentful-procedural gradient: The case of the -idz(o) construction in Griko
• 2. The suffix ‑idz(o): Synchronic variation and diachronic change
• 2.1 Verbalisers in Standard Modern Greek and Griko
• 2.2 The ‑idz(o) verbs
• 2.3 Criteria for grammaticality of ‑idz(o)
• 2.4 Paradigmatic interference and ‑idz(o)
• 3. Grammaticalisation within morphology: From derivation to inflection
• 3.1 Defining grammaticalisation
• 3.2 From derivational morphemes to inflectional class markers.
• 4. A "hybrid construction" between derivation and inflection
• 4.1 Grammaticalisation as constructionalisation
• 4.2 [X-idz(o)] as a hybrid construction
• Primary sources
• Part V. Discussion
• Chapter 11. Change in category membership from the perspective of construction grammar: A commentary
• 2. Categories: Creation and change
• 2.1 The creation of a new category
• 2.2 Category restructuring
• 3. Gradualness
• 4. The constructional network
• 4.1 Links between constructions
• 4.2 Constructionalization, constructional changes and categories
• 5. Concluding comments
• Construction index
• Subject index.

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