Category Change from a Constructional Perspective

Editors

Kristel Van Goethem | F.R.S.-FNRS & Université catholique de Louvain

Muriel Norde | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Evie Coussé | University of Gothenburg

Gudrun Vanderbauwhede | University of Mons

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Category change, broadly defined as the shift from one word class to another, is often studied as part of other changes, such as grammaticalization or lexicalization, but not in its own right. This volume offers a survey of different types of category change and their properties, e.g. abrupt versus gradual changes, morphological versus syntactic changes, or context-independent versus context-sensitive changes. The purpose of this collection of papers is to explore the concepts of linguistic category and category change from the perspective of Construction Grammar. Using data from a variety of languages, the authors address a number of themes that are central to current theorizing about category change, such as the question of whether or not categories should be considered discrete entities, how new categories arise, or whether category change can be considered as the emergence of a new construction, i.e. a new form-meaning pairing. The novel approach advanced in this volume will be of interest to historical linguists as well as to general linguists working on the nature of linguistic categories.

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 20] 2018. vii, 314 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.20

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | pp. vii–8

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Category change from a constructional perspective: Introduction

Kristel Van Goethem, Muriel Norde, Evie Coussé and Gudrun Vanderbauwhede | pp. 3–12

Part II. Category genesis: The creation of new categories

Chapter 2. Category genesis in Chitimacha: A constructional approach

Daniel W. Hieber | pp. 15–46

Chapter 3. Derivation without category change: A network-based analysis of diminutive prefixoids in Dutch

Muriel Norde and Caroline Morris | pp. 47–90

Part III. Category change in syntactic constructions

Chapter 4. Grammaticalization, host-class expansion and category change

Evie Coussé | pp. 93–117

Chapter 5. Why would anyone take long? Word classes and Construction Grammar in the history of long

David Denison | pp. 119–148

Chapter 6. Category change in the English gerund: Tangled web or fine-tuned constructional network?

Lauren Fonteyn and Liesbet Heyvaert | pp. 149–177

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’

Kristel Van Goethem, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Hendrik De Smet | pp. 179–205

Part IV. Category change in morphological constructions

Chapter 8. Category change in construction morphology

Geert Booij and Jenny Audring | pp. 209–228

Chapter 9. Evaluative morphology in German, Dutch and Swedish: Constructional Networks and the Loci of Change

Malte Battefeld, Torsten Leuschner and Gudrun Rawoens | pp. 229–262

Chapter 10. Constructional change on the contentful-procedural gradient: The case of the -idz(o) construction in Griko

Nikos Koutsoukos | pp. 263–287

Part V. Discussion

Chapter 11. Change in category membership from the perspective of construction grammar: A commentary

Graeme Trousdale | pp. 291–308

Construction index | pp. 309–310

Subject index | pp. 311–314

“[T]he collection at hand is a strong contribution to the field due to the fact that the reader gets an excellent overview of terms and issues that are currently being debated when looking at category change from a constructional perspective. All contributions focus on theorizing rather than mere ‘data crunching’ and successfully show that a constructional approach to categories and category change is a fruitful endeavor.”

Lotte Sommerer, University of Vienna, in Constructions and Frames Volume 11:2 (2019)

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