Diachronic Construction Grammar

Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar

“…In the process of host-class expansion, a semi-schematic construction incorporates a wider range of items in its schematic position, which leads to an overall higher degree of schematicity in the construction. Productivity is a related dimension in constructions in that it pertains to the extensibility of schematic constructions (Barðdal, 2008;Barðdal et. al, 2015).…”

“…Confronting grammaticalization research with the framework of construction grammar also brought up the question how grammaticalization relates to constructional change in general (Noël, 2007;Gisborne & Patten, 2011;Heine et al, 2016). As such, grammaticalization research increasingly interacts and converges with the emerging field of diachronic construction grammar (Israel, 1996;Bergs & Diewald, 2008;Barðdal et al, 2015).…”

Constructing a protolanguage: reconstructing prehistoric languages in a usage-based construction grammar framework

“…For another, CxG has become increasingly important in both fields. In historical linguistics, constructionist approaches have gained ground in accounts of individual language change phenomena [9][10][11] but also as a valuable tool for linguistic reconstruction [12,13]. And in language evolution research, various scholars have pointed out that CxG provides a promising framework for studying the evolution of language [5,14,15].…”

<i>Constructionalization and Constructional Changes</i>

“…Recently, constructional approaches are being applied increasingly to diachronic research, as manifested in the growing number of papers, presentations, and workshops with titles that include constructionalization and constructional change and the publication of books such as Hilpert (2013) and Barðdal et al (2015). The timely publication of the book under review by two leading researchers in this field has been welcomed by all who are interested in constructional as well as cognitive approaches to language change.…”