19.2726, Books: Semantics/Syntax/Historical Ling: Hilpert

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Subject: Germanic Future Constructions: Hilpert

 

	
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Title: Germanic Future Constructions 
Subtitle: A usage-based approach to language change 
Series Title: Constructional Approaches to Language 7  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CAL%207 


Author: Martin Hilpert

Hardback: ISBN:  9789027218292 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027218292 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00


Abstract:

This study offers a Construction Grammar approach to the historical
development and modern usage of future constructions in English, German,
Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. On the basis of corpus data, constructions such
as English <i>be going to</i> or German <i>werden</i> are analyzed as
symbolic units that convey a range of temporal and modal meanings. A
special focus lies on the main verbs that occur with these constructions.
Statistical co-occurrence patterns between constructions and lexical items
guide the semantic analyses in this study: It is argued that a construction
that conventionally occurs with main verbs such as <i>write</i> or
<i>speak</i> differs functionally from a construction that typically occurs
with verbs such as <i>rain</i> or <i>increase</i>. The same approach is
also applied historically: If a construction co-occurs with different main
verbs at subsequent stages in time, this is seen as a sign of semantic change. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Danish (dan)
                     Dutch (nld)
                     English (eng)
                     German, Standard (deu)
                     Swedish (swe)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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