Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Functions of Language
Volume Number: 32
Issue Number: 1
Issue Date: 20250704

Subtitle: Special Issue: Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English

Main Text:

2025. v, 161 pp.

Table of Contents

Editorial

Changes to the editorial team
pp. 160–161

Introduction

Today’s innovations, tomorrow’s conventions: Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English
David Lorenz & David Tizón-Couto
pp. 3–15

Articles

From constructional innovation to linguistic change
Alexander Bergs
pp. 16–42

I’m all virtual-peopled out : Creativity and productivity in the case of the English ‘exhaustive’ construction
Eva Zehentner
pp. 43–73

Discourse markers in the making: Just so you know and it just so happens
Gunther Kaltenböck & Elnora ten Wolde
pp. 74–104

Emerging inferentials in English? A study of the evolving uses of the present perfect and have to
Eric Mélac
pp. 105–130

Some as an indefinite article in Present Day English: A case of paradigmatization and constructional competition
Lotte Sommerer & Florent Perek
pp. 131–161

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Text/Corpus Linguistics