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Subject(s)

• Construction grammar [Browse]
• Modality (Linguistics) [Browse]

Related name

• Hilpert, Martin [Browse]
• Cappelle, Bert [Browse]
• Depraetere, Ilse [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Essays [Browse]

Series

• Constructional approaches to language volume 32 [More in this series]
• Constructional Approaches to Language volume 32

Summary note

"This volume explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality. Its main goal is to show how constructional analyses can help us address some of the long-standing questions that have informed discussions of modal expressions and their development, and to illustrate the processes that are involved in these developments on the basis of data from languages such as English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, and Japanese. The studies in this volume are organized around three interrelated topics. The first of these concerns the organization of modal constructions in a network. A second focus area of the studies in this volume concerns the developmental pathways that modal constructions follow diachronically. The third topic that ties the contributions of this volume together is the contrast between constructionalization and constructional change"-- Provided by publisher.

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Contents

• Modality in diachronic construction grammar : long-standing questions, new perspectives / Martin Hilpert, Bert Cappelle and Ilse Depraetere
• Contractions, constructions and constructional change : investigating the constructionhood of English modal contractions from a diachronic perspective / Robert Daugs
• Exploring relative degrees of auxiliarization empirically in German modal constructions with wissen and verstehen : does host class expansion provide enough evidence? / Volodymyr Dekalo
• Grammaticalization of verdienen into an auxiliary marker of deontic modality : an item-driven usage-based approach / Gabriele Diewald, Volodymyr Dekalo and Czicza Dániel
• The diachrony of Galician certamente and seguramente : a case of grammatical constructionalization / Vítor Míguez
• Unfolding constructions : postmodal auxiliaries in mirative complement patterns / Rea Peltola
• Horizontal links within and between paradigms : the constructional network of reported directives in German / Elena Smirnova
• Constructionalization of Japanese koto imperatives / Etsuyo Yuasa.

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ISBN

90-272-5900-3

OCLC

1268120150

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