Category Change from a Constructional PerspectiveKristel Van Goethem, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties, e.g. abrupt versus gradual changes, morphological versus syntactic changes, or context-independent versus context-sensitive changes. The purpose of this collection of papers is to explore the concepts of linguistic category and category change from the perspective of Construction Grammar. Using data from a variety of languages, the authors address a number of themes that are central to current theorizing about category change, such as the question of whether or not categories should be considered discrete entities, how new categories arise, or whether category change can be considered as the emergence of a new construction, i.e. a new form-meaning pairing. The novel approach advanced in this volume will be of interest to historical linguists as well as to general linguists working on the nature of linguistic categories. |
Contents
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A networkbased analysis of diminutive prefixoids in Dutch | 47 |
Part III Category change in syntactic constructions | 91 |
Chapter 4 Grammaticalization hostclass expansion and category change | 93 |
Word classes and Construction Grammar in the history of long | 119 |
Tangled web or finetuned constructional network? | 149 |
Constructional change and constructionalization of Dutch ver van X and verre van X far from X | 179 |
Part IV Category change in morphological constructions | 207 |
Chapter 8 Category change in construction morphology | 209 |
Constructional Networks and the Loci of Change | 229 |
The case of the idzo construction in Griko | 263 |
Part V Discussion | 289 |
A commentary | 291 |
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abstract adjectival adjectives adverb affixoids Amsterdam/Philadelphia analogy analysis attested binominal quantifier Booij Bybee Cambridge category change category genesis Chitimacha clausally grounded cognitive cognitive linguistics collocates complement compounds construction grammar constructional changes constructional network constructionalization contexts corpus Coussé debonding deixis derivational diachronic diminutive prefixoid construction downtoner Dutch English gerund evaluative examples Fonteyn formal function German Goethem gradience grammaticalisation grammaticalization Griko Gruyter Mouton Heyvaert host-class expansion Hüning idz(o inflection intensifying John Benjamins længe language change lexemes lexical category Linguistics meaning micro-constructions Middle English morphemes morphological nominal gerunds Non-diminutive Norde open slots Oxford University Press patterns perfect PPCME2 predicative position preposition preverbs productive properties prototype theory prototypical core reanalysis reuze schema schematic category Section semantic Smet specific structure subschema suffix Swadesh syntactic Traugott & Trousdale verbal gerunds verbs verre verre van X Verveckken Wetk word class