32.558, Summer Schools: Elizabeth Closs Traugott: A constructional perspective on language / Online

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Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2021 13:50:45
From: Associação Brasileira de Linguística [abralin at abralin.org]
Subject: Elizabeth Closs Traugott: A constructional perspective on language / Online

 

Elizabeth Closs Traugott: A constructional perspective on language 

Host Institution: 
Website: https://ead.abralin.org/

Dates: 01-Mar-2021 - 31-May-2021
Location: Online, https://ead.abralin.org/, Brazil

Focus: Language change; sociolinguistics; grammaticalization
Minimum Education Level: No Minimum


Description:
Starting on Mar 01 2021 @ 6PM (UTC): A constructional perspective on language
change
A free online course with Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Recently there has been great interest in constructional approaches to change,
e.g. Bergs and Diewald (2008), Traugott and Trousdale (2013) and Barðdal et
al. (2015). In this course, I discuss and update the perspective called
“constructionalization” developed in Traugott and Trousdale, using examples
from the history of English. Constructionalization is an approach to
morphosyntactic change such as the development of grammatical expressions
(e.g. be going to), clausal structures (e.g. ditransitive She gave me a book)
and idioms (e.g. Weird is the new cool). I revisit definitions of
“constructionalization” and “constructional changes”, and discuss the
complementarity of constructionalization and grammaticalization approaches to
language change (see Coussé et al. 2018).

Two case studies illustrate the differences. One is an account of the
development of the semi-modals I’d better/rather/sooner, the other an account
of the history of “dative” and “benefactive” alternations as in I gave her a
book/I gave a book to her and I built her a house/I built a house for her. I
end with discussion of the roles of subjectification and intersubjectification
in constructionalization, using the example of the development of discourse
markers like by the way.

For more information about the course, access our e-learning platform:
https://ead.abralin.org.


Registration: 11-Feb-2021 to 28-Feb-2021

Contact Person:  Abralin
                Email: abralin at abralin.org


Registration Instructions:




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