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- Title
Construct types in language change.
- Authors
Schneider, Stefan
- Abstract
This article combines ideas and concepts deriving from grammaticalization studies, cognitive linguistics and construction grammar. Specifically, it takes three important ideas developed within grammaticalization research, namely untypical context, bridging or critical context and isolating or switch context (Evans & Wilkins 2000, 2006; Heine 2002), and remodels them with the concepts construct and construction. This enables the definition of three salient construct types present in historical corpora that are placed in the continuum between individual variation and language change: extensional constructs, ambiguous constructs and adaptive constructs. Each construct type characterizes a specific phase in language change. The data presented as illustration of the construct types stem from historical and contemporary corpora of written French, Italian and Spanish.
- Subjects
LINGUISTIC change; VARIATION in language; COGNITIVE linguistics; CONSTRUCTION grammar; GRAMMATICALIZATION
- Publication
Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2024, Vol 14, Issue 2, p304
- ISSN
2210-2116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/jhl.22031.sch