Date: 24-Sep-2008 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Constructions and Language Change: Bergs, Diewald (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Constructions and Language Change
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 194
Published: 2008
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
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Editor: Alexander T. Bergs
Editor: Gabriele Diewald
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110198669 Pages: 271 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110198669 Pages: 271 Price: U.S. $ 157.00 Comment: For orders placed in North America only.
Abstract:
Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic change is highly context-dependent and somehow tied to constructions as linguistic units. This is the first volume to investigate the role of constructions and the potential of constructional approaches in linguistic change. The contributions in this volume comprise both theoretical and empirical studies, all of which are accessible for a general audience. While some contributions explicitly aim at comparing and unifying concepts from both traditional grammatical theories and recent construction grammar approaches, others offer detailed case studies of exemplary problems from a constructional point of view. The papers offer a cross-linguistic perspective and deal with a number of different language families, ranging from Germanic to Austronesian.
Linguistic Field(s):
Historical Linguistics
Linguistic Theories
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