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Lexicalization and Language Change

By: Laurel J. Brinton,Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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Lexicalization and Language Change

By: Laurel J. Brinton,Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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.

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1139445731

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Grammaticalization

By: Paul J. Hopper,Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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Grammaticalization

By: Paul J. Hopper,Elizabeth Closs Traugott

This is a general introduction to grammaticalization, the change whereby lexical terms and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions, and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions. The authors synthesize work from several areas of linguistics. The second edition has been thoroughly revised with substantial updates on theoretical and methodological issues that have arisen in the decade since the first edition, and includes a significantly expanded bibliography. Particular attention is paid to recent debates over directionality in change and the role of grammaticalization in creolization.

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0521804213

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Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott

How do you get from ‘after all those movies’ to ‘I went to a movie after all’?

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Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Graeme Trousdale

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Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Graeme Trousdale

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 discourse functions. A new and productive approach to historical linguistics.

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Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott

How do you get from ‘after all those movies’ to ‘I went to a movie after all’?

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Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Graeme Trousdale

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Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Graeme Trousdale

Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the level of the phrase, clause, and complex sentence. Until now it has been mainly synchronic. The authors use it to reconceptualize grammaticalization (the process by which verbs like to have lose semantic content and gain grammatical functions, or word order moves from discourse-prominent to syntax-prominent), and lexicalization (in which idioms become fixed and complex words simplified). Basing their argument on the notions that language is made up of language-specific form-meaning pairings and that there is a gradient between lexical and grammatical constructions, Professor Traugott and Dr Trousdale suggest that language change proceeds by micro-steps that involve closely related changes in syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse functions. They illustrate their exposition with numerous English examples drawn from Anglo-Saxon times to the present, many of which they discuss in depth. The book is organized in six chapters. The first outlines the approach and the questions to be addressed. The second reviews usage-based models of language change. The third considers the relation between grammatical constructionalization and grammaticalization. Chapters 4 and 5 focus respectively on lexical constructionalization and the role of context. The final chapter draws the authors' arguments together and outlines prospects for further research. Constructionalization and Constructional Changes propounds and demonstrates a new and productive approach to historical linguistics.

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0191669490

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Discourse Structuring Markers in English

A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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Discourse Structuring Markers in English

A historical constructionalist perspective on pragmatics

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott

This book is a contribution to the growing field of diachronic construction grammar. Focus is on corpus evidence for the importance of including conventionalized pragmatics within construction grammar and suggestions for how to do so. The empirical domain is the development of Discourse Structuring Markers in English such as after all, also, all the same, by the way, further and moreover (also known as Discourse Markers). The term Discourse Structuring Markers highlights their use not only to connect discourse segments but also to shape discourse coherence and understanding. Monofunctional Discourse Structuring Markers like further, instead, moreover are distinguished from multifunctional ones like after all and by the way. Drawing on usage-based work on constructionalization and constructional changes, the book is in three parts: foundational concepts, case studies, and currently open issues in diachronic construction grammar. These open issues are how to incorporate the concepts subjectification and intersubjectification into a constructional account of change, whether position in a clause is a construction, and the nature of constructional networks and how they change.

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9027257922

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Regularity in Semantic Change

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Richard B. Dasher

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Regularity in Semantic Change

By: Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Richard B. Dasher

This important study of semantic change examines how new meanings arise through language use, especially the various ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees. There has been growing interest in exploring systemicities in semantic change from a number of perspectives including theories of metaphor, pragmatic inferencing, and grammaticalization. Like earlier studies, these have for the most part been based on data taken out of context. This book is a detailed examination of semantic change from the perspective of historical pragmatics and discourse analysis. Drawing on extensive corpus data from over a thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.

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Grammaticalization

By: Paul J. Hopper,Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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By: Paul J. Hopper,Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast

By: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Bernd Kortmann

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Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast

By: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Bernd Kortmann

English, today's most important international language, is probably the best-described and most widely studied language in linguistic research. This is because there is an immense body of descriptive and theoretical publications and especially because of the existence of large computer corpora for Present-Day English, as well as for older periods of the language and for regional and social varieties. The strength of current English linguistics therefore is its orientation to solid descriptive empirical research. The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics TOPICS IN.

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3110166909

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Lexicalization and Language Change

By: Laurel J. Brinton,Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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By: Laurel J. Brinton,Elizabeth Closs Traugott

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The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution

The Case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English Enchiridion Militis Christiani

By: Elizabeth Bell Canon

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The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution

The Case of William Tyndale and the 1533 English Enchiridion Militis Christiani

By: Elizabeth Bell Canon

Can an author's preference for expressing modality be quantified and then used as a marker of attribution? This book explores the possibility of using the subjunctive mood as an indicator of style and a marker of authorship in Early Modern English texts. Using three works by the sixteenth-century biblical translator and polemicist, William Tyndale, Elizabeth Bell Canon establishes a predictable preference for certain types of modal expression. The theory of subjunctive use as a marker of attribution was then tested on the anonymous 1533 English translation of Erasmus' Enchiridion Militis Christiani. Also included in this book is a modern English spelling version Tyndale's The Parable of the Wicked Mammon.

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Peter Lang

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1433108321

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Interactional Linguistics

Studying Language in Social Interaction

By: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Margret Selting

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Interactional Linguistics

Studying Language in Social Interaction

By: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Margret Selting

Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action formation and ascription, sequence and topic organization, the book examines the way linguistic units of varying size - sentences, clauses, phrases, clause combinations, particles - are mobilized for the implementation of specific actions in talk-in-interaction. A final chapter discusses the implications of an interactional perspective for our understanding of language as well as its variation, diversity, and universality. Supplementary online chapters explore additional topics such as the linguistic organization of preference, stance, footing, and storytelling, as well as the use of prosody and phonetics, and further practices with language"--

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Black Frankenstein

The Making of an American Metaphor

By: Elizabeth Young

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Black Frankenstein

The Making of an American Metaphor

By: Elizabeth Young

For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans. Black Frankenstein stories, Young argues, effect four kinds of racial critique: they humanize the slave; they explain, if not justify, black violence; they condemn the slaveowner; and they expose the instability of white power. The black Frankenstein's monster has served as a powerful metaphor for reinforcing racial hierarchy—and as an even more powerful metaphor for shaping anti-racist critique. Illuminating the power of parody and reappropriation, Black Frankenstein tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics.

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0814797156

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The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach

By: Elizabeth Robar

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The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach

By: Elizabeth Robar

Research on the function and semantics of the verbal system in Hebrew (and Semitics in general) has been in constant ferment since McFall’s 1982 work The Enigma of the Hebrew Verbal System. Elizabeth Robar's analysis provides the best solution to this point, combining cognitive linguistics, cross-linguistics, diachronic and synchronic analysis. Her solution is brilliant, innovative, and supremely satisfying in interpreting all the data with great explanatory power. Let us hope this research will be quickly implemented in grammars of Hebrew." Peter J. Gentry, Donald L. Williams Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY. In The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew, Elizabeth Robar employs cognitive linguistics to unravel the notorious grammatical quandary in biblical Hebrew: explaining the waw consecutive, as well as other poorly understood verbal forms (e.g. with paragogic suffixes). She explains that languages must communicate the shape of thought units: including the prototypical paragraph, with its beginning, middle and ending; and its message. She demonstrates how the waw consecutive is both simpler and more nuanced than often argued. It neither foregrounds nor is a preterite, but it enables highly embedded textual structures. She also shows how allegedly anomalous forms may be used for thematic purposes, guiding the reader to the author’s intended interpretation for the text as it stands.

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Lexicalization and Language Change

Lexicalization and Language Change

Grammaticalization

Grammaticalization

Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers

Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers

Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers

Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers

Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

Constructionalization and Constructional Changes

Discourse Structuring Markers in English

Discourse Structuring Markers in English

Regularity in Semantic Change

Regularity in Semantic Change

Grammaticalization

Grammaticalization

Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast

Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast

Lexicalization and Language Change

Lexicalization and Language Change

The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution

The Use of Modal Expression Preference as a Marker of Style and Attribution

Interactional Linguistics

Interactional Linguistics

Black Frankenstein

Black Frankenstein

The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

The Verb and the Paragraph in Biblical Hebrew

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