Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-’s constructional properties in its conservation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents V
3. Introduction: Constructions and Language Change 1
4. The grammaticalization of NP of NP patterns 23
5. Constructions and constructs:mapping a shift between predication and attribution 47
6. Constructional idioms as products of linguistic change: the aan het + INFINITIVE construction in dutch 81
7. Where did this future construction come from? A case study of Swedish komma att V 107
8. Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-’s constructional properties in its conservation 133
9. Negative verbal clause constructions in Puyuma: exploring constructional disharmony 171
10. Borrowed rhetorical constructions as starting points for grammaticalization 195
11. (De)grammaticalisation as a source for new constructions: the case of subject doubling in Dutch 231
12. Syntax as a repository of historical relics 261
13. Backmatter 269