Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface 1
4. Part I. Constructions in contact
5. Construction Grammar and language contact 5
6. Grammar is community-specific 37
7. Part II. Constructional variation and change in contact
8. Towards a constructional analysis of the progressive aspect in Texas German 73
9. Tense and aspect marking in (Low) German perfect constructions based on variety contact 115
10. Distributional assimilation in constructional semantics 143
11. Part III. Item-based patterns and constructional generalizations in contact
12. Constructions as cross-linguistic generalizations over instances 181
13. Texas German and English word order constructions in contact 211
14. Part IV. Semantic frames in contact
15. A constructional account of the modal particle ‘ja’ in Texas German 253
16. Frames change in language contact environments 277
17. Author index 311
18. Index of constructions 313
19. Subject index 315