TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hilpert,Martin
TI  - Germanic future constructions: a usage-based approach to language change 
T2  - Constructional approaches to language
SN  - 9789027218292
AV  - PF3105 .H55 2008eb
U1  - 435 22 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Amsterdam, NL
PB  - John Benjamins Pub. Co.
KW  - German language
KW  - Grammar
KW  - Construction grammar
KW  - Usage
KW  - Linguistic change
KW  - Allemand (Langue)
KW  - Grammaire
KW  - Grammaire de construction
KW  - Changement linguistique
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
KW  - German
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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