Chapter 1. Category change from a constructional perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Part I. Introduction
5. Chapter 1. Category change from a constructional perspective 3
6. Part II. Category genesis
7. Chapter 2. Category genesis in Chitimacha 15
8. Chapter 3. Derivation without category change 47
9. Part III. Category change in syntactic constructions
10. Chapter 4. Grammaticalization, host-class expansion and category change 93
11. Chapter 5. Why would anyone take long ? 119
12. Chapter 6. Category change in the English gerund 149
13. Chapter 7. The emergence of a new adverbial downtoner 179
14. Part IV. Category change in morphological constructions
15. Chapter 8. Category change in construction morphology 209
16. Chapter 9. Evaluative morphology in German, Dutch and Swedish 229
17. Chapter 10. Constructional change on the contentful-procedural gradient 263
18. Part V. Discussion
19. Chapter 11. Change in category membership from the perspective of construction grammar 291
20. Construction index 309
21. Subject index 311