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International Conference on Construction Grammar. Constructions in contact: constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages / edited by Hans C. Boas, University of Texas at Austin ; Steffen Höder, Kiel University. — 1 online resource. — (Constructional approaches to language). — The volume is based on papers given at the ICCG-8 workshop, which was a part of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Construction Grammar. — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/1947655.pdf>.

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Subject: Construction grammar — Congresses.; Germanic languages — Congresses. — Grammar; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

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Table of Contents

  • Constructions in Contact
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Part I. Constructions in contact
  • Construction Grammar and language contact
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Theoretical approaches to language contact phenomena
    • 3. Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics
    • 4. Constructions in contact
    • 5. Overview of the chapters
    • 6. Conclusions
    • Acknowledgment
    • References
  • Grammar is community-specific
    • 1. (Why) Yet another approach?
    • 2. Insights from contact linguistics: Language contact and its status in linguistic theory
      • Argument 1: Language contact is everywhere
      • Argument 2: Languages interact in multilingual speakers’ cognition
      • Argument 3: Language contact affects language structure
      • Argument 4: Multilingualism serves a community’s needs
      • Argument 5: What is a language, anyway?
    • 3. Taking usage-based CxG seriously: Towards socio-cognitive realism
    • 4. An integrated approach: The repertoire as constructicon
      • 4.1 Language-specificity as a constructional property
      • 4.2 Constructions without borders: Idioconstructions and diaconstructions
      • 4.3 Language-specific input vs. diasystematic constructicon?
      • 4.4 Pro-diasystematic change
      • 4.5 Generalisation gone wild?
    • 5. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgment
    • References
  • Part II. Constructional variation and change in contact
  • Towards a constructional analysis of the progressive aspect in Texas German
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The progressive aspect in English and German
      • 2.1 Progressive aspect
      • 2.2 The progressive aspect in English, Standard German, and dialectal German
    • 3. A Construction Grammar approach to progressive aspect
    • 4. Progressive marking in Texas German
      • 4.1 The present tense (progressive) construction with an optional adverb
        • 4.1.1 The present tense (progressive) construction in Gilbert (1972), Guion (1996), and the TGDA
        • 4.1.2 A TxG pres(prog) construction
      • 4.2 The ‘am’-progressive
        • 4.2.1 The ‘am’-progressive in Gilbert (1972), Guion (1996), and the TGDA
        • 4.2.2 A TxG ‘am’-progressive construction
      • 4.3 The ‘tun’-progressive
        • 4.3.1 The ‘tun’-construction in Gilbert (1972), Guion (1996), and the TGDA
        • 4.3.2 A TxG ‘tun’-progressive construction
    • 5. Summary and conclusion
    • References
  • Tense and aspect marking in (Low) German perfect constructions based on variety contact
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Introduction to the German split auxiliary system
    • 3. Situation of Low German in Westphalia and Emsland
    • 4. Method – Field research and survey design
    • 5. Qualitative characterization of the phenomenon in contact
      • 5.1. The phenomenon in the dialect variety
      • 5.2. The phenomenon in the (regional) standard variety
    • 6. Quantitative empirical analysis
    • 7. Aspectual contours of lexical and grammatical aspect
    • 8. Modeling in the framework of Construction Grammar
    • 9. Conclusion
    • Acknowledgment
    • References
    • A. Appendix
  • Distributional assimilation in constructional semantics
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Theoretical preliminaries
      • 2.1 Diachronic constructional semasiology
      • 2.2 Distributional assimilation
    • 3. The contact situation Afrikaans–English
    • 4. Three possible cases of contact-related change in Afrikaans three-argument constructions
      • 4.1 Introducing the English and Afrikaans ditransitive constructions
      • 4.2 ‘Ballistic motion’ uses
      • 4.3 Dispossession uses: A case study of ‘ontneem’ (‘take away’)
      • 4.4 Secundative patterns with verbs of giving
    • 5. General discussion
    • 6. Conclusion and outlook
    • Acknowledgment
    • References
  • Part III. Item-based patterns and constructional generalizations in contact
  • Constructions as cross-linguistic generalizations over instances
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Passives – a brief overview
    • 3. Passives and actives as linguistic resources
    • 4. Patterns and constructions: Swedish
    • 5. The Finnish “passive”
    • 6. Patterns, language contact, and language change
    • 7. Solf Swedish
    • 8. Constructional pattern contact
    • 9. Implications
    • Acknowledgment
    • References
  • Texas German and English word order constructions in contact
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Previous accounts of Texas German word order
      • 2.1 Texas German(s)
      • 2.2 German word order
      • 2.3 Word order in TxG
    • 3. Word order in (Diasystematic) Construction Grammar
    • 4. German word order constructions and German-English diaconstructions
      • 4.1. German word order constructions
      • 4.2 English-German word order diaconstructions
        • (A) Subject precedes verb
        • (B) All verbs occur together
        • (C) Finite verbs precede non-finite verb forms
        • (D) Polar questions require ‘do’ support
    • 5. Analysis of TxG word order
      • 5.1 Data selection and limitations
      • 5.2. TxG clauses with German-origin verbs
        • ‘Müssen’ (‘to have to’)
        • ‘Dass’ (‘that’)
        • ‘Weil’ (‘because’)
        • Because
      • 5.3 TxG utterances with English verbs
        • Infinitival clauses
        • Polar questions
        • Subordinate clauses
        • Main clauses
      • 5.4. Summary of TxG word order
      • 5.5. (Diasystematic) constructional account of divergent TxG syntax
        • Multiple lexical transference
        • (Inaccurate) complex German structures
        • Transferring complex verb constructions with lexicogrammatical interference
        • Loan Translation of more general and ‘central’ constructions
        • Multiple transference and interference in a single clause
    • 6. Conclusion
    • References
  • Part IV. Semantic frames in contact
  • A constructional account of the modal particle ‘ja’ in Texas German
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Texas German: History and documentation
    • 3. Distribution of English and German DPs and MPs in Texas German
    • 4. Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics
    • 5. Formalizing the distribution of ‘ja’ in TxG
      • 5.1 Frame-evoking senses of ‘ja’
      • 5.2 Pragmatics of Implicit Anchoring (PIA)
      • 5.3 Formalizing discourse patterns as constructions
    • 6. Conclusions and outlook
    • Acknowledgment
    • References
  • Frames change in language contact environments
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Background
      • 2.1. Frame Semantics and FrameNet
      • 2.2 Moving across languages
    • 3. Methodology
      • 3.1 The Free Sorting Method
      • 3.2 Participants: Districts and background data
      • 3.3 The List of motion verbs
      • 3.4 Sorting procedure & analysis
    • 4. Results
      • 4.1 Dendrograms
      • 4.2 Logistic regression analysis
    • 5. Follow-up measure: Participant Feedback
      • 5.1. Video stimuli and Procedure
      • 5.2 Student feedback
    • 6. The suggested frame change
    • 7. Conclusion
    • References
  • Author index
  • Index of constructions
  • Subject index

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