Category change broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another is often studied as part of other changes such as grammaticalization or lexicalization but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their p... Lees meer.

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Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology into a new way of studying language change. Constructions are generalizations over remembered exemplars of language use. These exemplars are stored with all their formal and functional pr... Lees meer.

Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology into a new way of studying language change. Constructions are generalizations over remembered exemplars of language use. These exemplars are stored with all their formal and functional pr... Lees meer.

This book develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualize grammaticalization and lexicalization. The authors show that language change proceeds by micro-steps involving every aspect of grammar including pragmatics and di... Lees meer.

Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology into a new way of studying language change. Constructions are generalizations over remembered exemplars of language use. These exemplars are stored with all their formal and functional pr... Lees meer.

This book develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualize grammaticalization and lexicalization. The authors show that language change proceeds by micro-steps involving every aspect of grammar including pragmatics and di... Lees meer.

This volume explores how human languages become what they are why they differ from one another in certain ways but not in others and why they change in the ways that they do. Peter Culicover proposes that language change and variation are responses to the pressure to... Lees meer.