Germanic future constructions: a usage-based approach to language change
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Main Author: Hilpert, Martin 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, NL John Benjamins Pub. Co. 2008
Series:Constructional approaches to language v. 7
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Online Access:UBA01
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Germanic Future Constructions; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Theory and methodology; Comparing future constructions in a single language; Cross-linguistic comparisons; Collexemes and grammaticalization paths; The futurate present; Conclusions; References; Notes; Index; The series Constructional Approaches to Language
This study offers a Construction Grammar approach to the historical development and modern usage of future constructions in English, German, Dutch, Danish, and Swedish. On the basis of corpus data, constructions such as English be going to or German werden are analyzed as symbolic units that convey a range of temporal and modal meanings. A special focus lies on the main verbs that occur with these constructions. Statistical co-occurrence patterns between constructions and lexical items guide the semantic analyses in this study: It is argued that a construction that conventionally occurs with m
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 205 pages)
ISBN:9789027291035
9027291039
DOI:10.1075/cal.7

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