35.2568, Books: The Diachrony of Ditransitives in Late Modern Swedish: Valdeson (2024)

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Subject: 35.2568, Books: The Diachrony of Ditransitives in Late Modern Swedish: Valdeson (2024)

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Date: 19-Sep-2024
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at brill.com]
Subject: The Diachrony of Ditransitives in Late Modern Swedish: Valdeson (2024)


Title: The Diachrony of Ditransitives in Late Modern Swedish
Series Title: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Brill
                http://www.brill.com
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/69340

Author: Fredrik Valdeson
Hardback: ISBN: 978-90-04-68638-0 Pages: 328 Price: U.S. $ 147
Hardback: ISBN: 978-90-04-68638-0 Pages: 328 Price: Europe EURO 135
eBook: ISBN: 978-90-04-68641-0 Pages: 328 Price: U.S. $ 147
eBook: ISBN: 978-90-04-68641-0 Pages: 328 Price: Europe EURO 135
Abstract:

This book presents the first major study of ditransitives in Swedish.
Using a combination of well-established and innovative corpus-based
methods, the book reveals considerable changes in the constructional
behaviour of ditransitive verbs over the course of the last 200 years.
The key finding is that the use of the so-called double object
construction has decreased dramatically in terms of frequency, lexical
richness and semantic range. This development is parallelled by a
decisive increase in prepositional object constructions. The results
are of high relevance to the ongoing debate within construction
grammar on constructional productivity and on the nature of horizontal
links.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Swedish (swe)

Language Family(ies): East Scandinavian

Written In: English (eng)



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