This collected volume brings together a wide array of international
linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus
on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and
investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although
usage-based linguistics emphasizes the centrality of the discourse
context for language usage and cognition, this insight has not been
fully integrated into the investigation of processes of grammatical
variation and change. The structuralist heritage as well as corpus
linguistic methodologies have favoured de-contextualized analytical
perspectives on contemporary and historical language data and on the
mechanisms and processes guiding grammatical variation and change.
From a range of different perspectives, the contributions to this
volume take up the challenge of contextualization in the investigation
of grammatical variation and change in different stages of English
language history and discuss central theoretical notions such as
gradable grammaticality, motivation in hypervariation, and
hypercharacterization. The book will be relevant to students and
linguists working in the field of diachronic and variational
linguistics and English language history.
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ISBN
9783110682663
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
De Gruyter
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok