Category Change from a Constructional Perspective

Category Change from a Constructional Perspective
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Category change from a constructional perspective: Introduction
	1. Linguistic categories: Discrete or gradient?
	2. Category change
	3. This volume
	References
Part II. Category genesis: The creation of new categories
Chapter 2. Category genesis in Chitimacha: A constructional approach
	1. Introduction
	2. Background
	3. Preverbs in Chitimacha
		3.1 ʔap venitive
		3.2 ʔapš reditive
		3.3 hi andative
		3.4 his adreditive
		3.5 kap super-lative
		3.6 kaːpʼs superreditive
		3.7 ka translative
		3.8 kas transreditive
		3.9 ni detransitivizer
	4. The constructionalization of Chitimacha preverbs
	5. Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
	Appendix. Abbreviations
Chapter 3. Derivation without category change: A network-based analysis of diminutive prefixoids in Dutch
	1. Introduction
	2. Theoretical preliminaries
		2.1 Construction Morphology
		2.2 Constructional networks
		2.3 Inheritance links and lateral links
	3. The present study
		3.1 Sources and method
		3.2 Results
		3.3 Formal and semantic properties
	4. A network analysis
		4.1 Inheritance links and lateral links in the dpc network
		4.2 A multiple source construction?
	5. Concluding remarks
	Acknowledgements
	References
	Appendix. Google and COW frequencies
Part III. Category change in syntactic constructions
Chapter 4. Grammaticalization, host-class expansion and category change
	1. Introduction
	2. Theoretical framework
		2.1 Construction grammar
		2.2 Prototype theory
	3. Host-class expansion in the have and be perfect in Dutch
	4. Host-class expansion in two binominal quantifier constructions in Spanish
	4. Host-class expansion in two binominal quantifier constructions in Spanish
	5. Summary and discussion
	6. Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5. Why would anyone take long?: Word classes and Construction Grammar in the history of long
	1. Introduction
		1.1 Data sources
		1.2 Prototypical adjective and adverb
	2. The boundaries of adverb long
		2.1 Between adverb and adjective?
		2.2 Between adverb and adposition?
		2.3 Between adverb and noun?
	3. Excursus on Danish
	4. Theoretical prerequisites
		4.1 Vagueness
		4.2 Decategorialisation
		4.3 Word classes and Construction Grammar
	5. A partial constructional history of temporal long
	6. Closing remarks
	Acknowledgements
	Data sources and abbreviations
	Secondary works
Chapter 6. Category change in the English gerund: Tangled web or fine-tuned constructional network?
	1. Introduction
	2. Goals and methodology
	3. Gerunds: Nominal and clausal deixis
		3.1 Qualitative analysis: Types of deixis
		3.2 Quantitative analysis: The rise of clausal deixis in bare nominal and verbal gerunds
	4. Reflections on category change: Is the verbalization of the gerund a case of constructionalization?
	4. Reflections on category change: Is the verbalization of the gerund a case of constructionalization?
	5. Concluding remarks
	References
Chapter 7. The emergence of a new adverbial downtoner: Constructional change and constructionalization of Dutch [ver van X] and [verre van X] ‘far from X’
	1. Introduction
	2. Downtoners
	3. [ver van X] and [verre van X] in present-day Dutch
		3.1 Method
		3.2 Semantics
		3.3 Complementation patterns
	4. Diachronic developments
		4.1 Method
		4.2 [ver van X]
		4.3 [verre van X]
		4.4 Comparison [ver van X] and [verre van X]
	5. Category change, constructional change and constructionalization
	6. Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
	Online sources
Part IV. Category change in morphological constructions
Chapter 8. Category change in construction morphology
	1. Introduction: Override constructions
	2. Coercion by morphological constructions
		2.1 Coercion in word formation: change of semantic class
		2.2 Category change through inflection
	3. Construction-dependent morphology and category change
		3.1 The op het A-e af construction
		3.2 The aan de [V]N construction
		3.3 The [voor de N]PP-construction
		3.4 Category change in verbal constructions
	4. Conclusions
	References
Chapter 9. Evaluative morphology’ in German, Dutch and Swedish: Constructional Networks and the Loci of Change
	1. Introduction
	2. Theoretical preliminaries
		2.1 Sources of adjectival evaluatives
		2.2 Evaluative prefixoids
		2.3 Affixoids in construction morphology
		2.4 Abstract subschemata for evaluative compounds
	3. Evaluatives in German, Dutch and Swedish
		3.1 Denominal evaluatives and nouns
		3.2 Intensification of adjectives and adverbs
		3.3 Evaluative ‘loan prefixes’
	4. Constructional networks
		4.1 Paradigmatic relationships
		4.2 Source constructions and formal variation
	5. Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
Chapter 10. Constructional change on the contentful-procedural gradient: The case of the -idz(o) construction in Griko
	1. Introduction
	2. The suffix ‑idz(o): Synchronic variation and diachronic change
		2.1 Verbalisers in Standard Modern Greek and Griko
		2.2 The ‑idz(o) verbs
		2.3 Criteria for grammaticality of ‑idz(o)
		2.4 Paradigmatic interference and ‑idz(o)
	3. Grammaticalisation within morphology: From derivation to inflection
		3.1 Defining grammaticalisation
		3.2 From derivational morphemes to inflectional class markers
	4. A “hybrid construction” between derivation and inflection
		4.1 Grammaticalisation as constructionalisation
		4.2 [X-idz(o)] as a hybrid construction
	5. Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
	Primary sources
Part V. Discussion
Chapter 11. Change in category membership from the perspective of construction grammar: A commentary
	1. Introduction
	2. Categories: Creation and change
		2.1 The creation of a new category
		2.2 Category restructuring
	3. Gradualness
	4. The constructional network
		4.1 Links between constructions
		4.2 Constructionalization, constructional changes and categories
	5. Concluding comments
	References
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