This paper revisits POSS DEM constructions in Old
English (OE) by analyzing 13 OE prose texts from the
York-Toronto-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Old English
Prose (YCOE). It aims to explain the marginalization
and ultimate demise of this constructional family by discussing how
the emergence of a new node (“constructionalization”) but also the
reorganization of node-external, vertical and horizontal links can
lead to constructional competition and ultimately to the
disappearance of (a) node(s) in the network. It will especially
discuss frequency effects and cognitive factors like strong/weak
entrenchment or analogical thinking as driving forces of network
change, especially constructional loss. Additionally, this paper
makes some suggestions on how constructions should be annotated and
sketched in networks.
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