Germanic future constructions : a usage-based approach to language change / Martin Hilpert.

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Hilpert, Martin

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Constructional approaches to language ; v. 7.Publication details: Amsterdam, NL : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789027218292
9027218293
9789027291035
9027291039

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Germanic future constructions.DDC classification:

435 22 22

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PF3105 .H55 2008eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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