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Composite Predicates in English
Author | : N. R. Cattell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106005506255 |
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Composite Predicates in English
Author | : Ray Cattell |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2020-01-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004373136 |
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Collocational and Idiomatic Aspects of Composite Predicates in the History of English
Author | : Laurel J. Brinton,Minoji Akimoto |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027230508 |
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The focus of this carefully selected volume concerns the existence, frequency, and form of composite/complex predicates (the take a look construction) in earlier periods of the English language, an area of scholarship which has been virtually neglected. The various contributions seek to understand the collocational and idiomatic aspects of these structures, as well as of related structures such as complex prepositions (e.g., on account of) and phrasal verbs (e.g., look up), in their earliest manifestations. Moreover, study of these constructions at the individual stages of English leads to diachronic questions concerning their development, raising issues pertaining to grammaticalization, lexicalization, and idiomaticization-processes which are not always clearly differentiated nor fully understood.
Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization
Author | : Elena Seoane,María José López-Couso |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027229892 |
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This volume and its companion one"Rethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives" offer a selection of papers from the "Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization," held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. The overall aim of the book is to enrich our understanding of what grammaticalization entails via detailed case studies in combination with theoretical and methodological discussions. Some of the theoretical issues discussed in the sixteen articles included in the volume are the nature of grammaticalization and related processes such as anti-, re- and degrammaticalization, the relationship between grammaticalization and lexicalization, the role of frequency in grammaticalization and the interplay between information structure and grammaticalization. Other topics covered are the grammaticalization of composite predicates in English, the emergence of modal particles in German and particle clusters in Dutch and the grammaticalization of various modal auxiliaries in Spanish and in Swedish.
Composite Predicates in Middle English
Author | : Teresa Moralejo Gárate |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 3895868531 |
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Lexicalization and Language Change
Author | : Laurel J. Brinton,Elizabeth Closs Traugott |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005-10-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139445731 |
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Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has been viewed by syntacticians as the reverse process of grammaticalization, by morphologists as a routine process of word-formation, and by semanticists as the development of concrete meanings. In this up-to-date survey, Laurel Brinton and Elizabeth Traugott examine the various conceptualizations of lexicalization that have been presented in the literature. In light of contemporary work on grammaticalization, they then propose a new, unified model of lexicalization and grammaticalization. Their approach is illustrated with a variety of case studies from the history of English, including present participles, multi-word verbs, adverbs, and discourse markers, as well as some examples from other Indo-European languages. The first review of the various approaches to lexicalization, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of historical linguistics and language change.
Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns
Author | : Kristin Davidse,Caroline Gentens,Lobke Ghesquière,Lieven Vandelanotte |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2014-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027269744 |
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The studies in this volume approach English grammatical patterns in novel ways by interrogating corpora, focusing on patterns in the verb phrase (tense, aspect and modality), the noun phrase (intensification and focus marking), complementation structures and clause combining. Some studies interrogate historical corpora to reconstruct the diachronic development of patterns such as light verb constructions, verb-particle combinations, the be a-verbing progressive and absolute constructions. Other studies analyse synchronic datasets to typify the functions in discourse of, amongst others, tag questions and it-clefts, or to elucidate some long-standing problems in the syntactic analysis of verbal or adjectival complementation patterns, thanks to the empirical detail only corpora can provide. The volume documents the practices that have been developed to guarantee optimal representativeness of corpus data, to formulate definitions of patterns that can be operationalized in extractions, and to build dimensions of variation such as text type and register into rich grammatical descriptions.
On Multiple Source Constructions in Language Change
Author | : Hendrik De Smet,Lobke Ghesquière,Freek Van de Velde |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2015-11-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027268006 |
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In much writing on language change, there is a tacit assumption that change operates on a single source construction to produce an innovative target construction. This volume challenges this assumption, by showing that many changes involve interactions between multiple source constructions. In fact, the involvement of multiple source constructions is unexceptional. The phenomenon is observed in phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. It is seen in language-internal change as well as in contact-induced change. Interactions may obtain between independent but historically related constructions as well as between historically unrelated constructions. The contributions to this volume, on the one hand, present specific case studies on changes involving multiple source constructions, in various domains of grammar and in a variety of languages. On the other hand, they discuss how such changes can be accommodated in current theoretical models of language. Originally published in Studies in Language Vol. 37:3 (2013).