Ten lectures on diachronic construction grammar

Ten lectures on diachronic construction grammar / by Martin Hilpert.

"In this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructi...

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Main Author: Hilpert, Martin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics ; v. 26.
Subjects:
Construction grammar.
Cognitive grammar.
Linguistic change.
Linguistics.
Lectures.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. What Is Construction Grammar?
  • 2. Taking a Constructional Approach to Language Change
  • 3. Three Open Questions in Diachronic Construction Grammar
  • 4. Shifts in Collocational Preferences
  • 5. How Constructional Networks Grow and Fade
  • 6. Competition in Constructional Change
  • 7. Differentiation and Attraction in Constructional Change
  • 8. The Asymmetric Priming Hypothesis
  • 9. The Upward Strengthening Hypothesis
  • 10. Constructional Change and Distributional Semantics.

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