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Grammar – Discourse – Context
Grammar and Usage in Language Variation and Change
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Edited by:
Kristin Bech
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although usage-based linguistics emphasizes the centrality of the discourse context for language usage and cognition, this insight has not been fully integrated into the investigation of processes of grammatical variation and change. The structuralist heritage as well as corpus linguistic methodologies have favoured de-contextualized analytical perspectives on contemporary and historical language data and on the mechanisms and processes guiding grammatical variation and change. From a range of different perspectives, the contributions to this volume take up the challenge of contextualization in the investigation of grammatical variation and change in different stages of English language history and discuss central theoretical notions such as gradable grammaticality, motivation in hypervariation, and hypercharacterization. The book will be relevant to students and linguists working in the field of diachronic and variational linguistics and English language history.
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Kristin Bech, University of Oslo, Norway; Ruth Möhlig-Falke, Heidelberg University, Germany.
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List of tables and figures
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Grammar – discourse – context: Grammatical variation and change and the usage-based perspective
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Contextualizing Old English noun phrases
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Syntax, text type, genre and authorial voice in Old English: A data-driven approach
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The intensifier system of the Ormulum and the interplay of micro-level and macro-level contexts in linguistic change
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Constructional change across the lifespan: The nominative and infinitive in early modern writers
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Contextualizing dual-form adverbs in the Old Bailey Corpus: An assessment of semantic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic factors
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Bridging contexts in the reanalysis of naturally as a sentence adverb: A corpus study
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From parataxis to amalgamation: The emergence of the sentence-final is all construction in the history of American English
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The role of context in the entrenchment of new grammatical markers in World Englishes
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Paradigms, host classes, and ancillariness: A comparison of three approaches to grammatical status
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The motivated unmotivated: Variation, function and context
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Grammar in context: On the role of hypercharacterization in language variation and change
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List of contributors
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Index
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eBook published on:
December 20, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783110682564
Hardcover published on:
December 20, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110682496
Paperback published on:
January 31, 2022
Paperback ISBN:
9783110778113
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
8
Main content:
375
Illustrations:
16
Coloured Illustrations:
4
Tables:
34
eBook ISBN:
9783110682564
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110682496
Paperback ISBN:
9783110778113
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars (linguistics, English studies, historical and diachronic linguistics, corpus, usage-based and cognitive linguistics)
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