Constructions in contact : constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages /
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2018
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| Series: | Constructional approaches to language ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Constructions in Contact; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Part I. Constructions in contact; Construction Grammar and language contact; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical approaches to language contact phenomena; 3. Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics; 4. Constructions in contact; 5. Overview of the chapters; 6. Conclusions; Acknowledgment; References; Grammar is community-specific; 1. (Why) Yet another approach?; 2. Insights from contact linguistics: Language contact and its status in linguistic theory
- Argument 1: Language contact is everywhereArgument 2: Languages interact in multilingual speakers' cognition; Argument 3: Language contact affects language structure; Argument 4: Multilingualism serves a community's needs; Argument 5: What is a language, anyway?; 3. Taking usage-based CxG seriously: Towards socio-cognitive realism; 4. An integrated approach: The repertoire as constructicon; 4.1 Language-specificity as a constructional property; 4.2 Constructions without borders: Idioconstructions and diaconstructions; 4.3 Language-specific input vs. diasystematic constructicon?
- 4.4 Pro-diasystematic change4.5 Generalisation gone wild?; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; Part II. Constructional variation and change in contact; Towards a constructional analysis of the progressive aspect in Texas German; 1. Introduction; 2. The progressive aspect in English and German; 2.1 Progressive aspect; 2.2 The progressive aspect in English, Standard German, and dialectal German; 3. A Construction Grammar approach to progressive aspect; 4. Progressive marking in Texas German; 4.1 The present tense (progressive) construction with an optional adverb
- 4.1.1 The present tense (progressive) construction in Gilbert (1972), Guion (1996), and the TGDA4.1.2 A TxG pres(prog) construction; 4.2 The 'am'-progressive; 4.2.1 The 'am'-progressive in Gilbert (1972), Guion (1996), and the TGDA; 4.2.2 A TxG 'am'-progressive construction; 4.3 The 'tun'-progressive; 4.3.1 The 'tun'-construction in Gilbert (1972), Guion (1996), and the TGDA; 4.3.2 A TxG 'tun'-progressive construction; 5. Summary and conclusion; References; Tense and aspect marking in (Low) German perfect constructions based on variety contact; 1. Introduction
- 2. Introduction to the German split auxiliary system3. Situation of Low German in Westphalia and Emsland; 4. Method- Field research and survey design; 5. Qualitative characterization of the phenomenon in contact; 5.1. The phenomenon in the dialect variety; 5.2. The phenomenon in the (regional) standard variety; 6. Quantitative empirical analysis; 7. Aspectual contours of lexical and grammatical aspect; 8. Modeling in the framework of Construction Grammar; 9. Conclusion; Acknowledgment; References; A. Appendix; Distributional assimilation in constructional semantics; 1. Introduction
