Shall and shan t in contemporary English – a case of functional condensation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Constructional approaches to language-particular description 1
4. 1. The English gerund
5. Gerunds, categories and constructions 7
6. Approaches to the English gerund 11
7. Constructions in grammaticalization and lexicalization: Evidence from the history of a composite predicate construction in English 33
8. 2. Constructions and corpora
9. Corpus approaches to constructions 71
10. English relative clauses and Construction Grammar: A topic which preposition placement can shed light on? 77
11. Shall and shan t in contemporary English – a case of functional condensation 113
12. Constraints on the attributive use of “predicative-only” adjectives: A reassessment 145
13. 3. Constructions and lexicalism
14. Constructions and lexical approaches 183
15. Antitransitivity and constructionality 187
16. Dependencies are constructions: A case study in predicative complementation 219
17. Word Grammar and Construction Grammar 257
18. Backmatter 303