2016
DOI: 10.1017/s0954394515000186
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How gradual change progresses: The interaction between convention and innovation

Abstract: This paper hypothesizes that as an expression becomes more frequent in one grammatical context, its mental retrievability improves, which in turn makes it more easily available in different yet closely related (analogous) grammatical contexts. Such a mechanism can account for the progression of gradual change. The hypothesis generates two testable predictions. First, innovative constructions should be more likely to emerge if their analogical models are better entrenched. Second, an expression's retrievability… Show more

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“…Crucially, conventionalization/entrenchment has been argued to be an important precondition for innovative use (cf. De Smet 2016), which is in line with communicative explanations of language change and variation.…”
Section: S(unit) = -Log 2 P(unit|context)supporting
confidence: 82%
“…Crucially, conventionalization/entrenchment has been argued to be an important precondition for innovative use (cf. De Smet 2016), which is in line with communicative explanations of language change and variation.…”
Section: S(unit) = -Log 2 P(unit|context)supporting
confidence: 82%
“…Secondly since -lysis as a noun becomes more conventionalized, it is increasingly used in other related word classes: first adjectives, followed by verbs and then adverbs. This result confirms the above-mentioned observation by De Smet (2016). Thirdly, the use within these word classes shows how some forms become established with a relatively conventionalized use allowing new forms to arise within a word class with an increase in productivity.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 88%
“…De Smet 2016). This hypothesis is tested by considering conventionalized vs. productive use of CFs considering also word classes changes over time.…”
Section: Rationale and Hypothesesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Petré (2016) investigates the competition between [GO to INF] and [BE going to INF] in the works of nineteen 17 th -and early 18 th -century writers to find evidence that the latter construction was an "extravagant" innovation. De Smet (2016) analyses data for 169 different speakers collected from the Hansard Corpus, covering the three final decades of the 20 th century, to study the recent development of the noun key into an adjective, connecting individual speakers' use of the innovative construction with their use of more conventional constructions that provide "analogical support". All of this is research on grammatical innovations, however; historical idiolectal corpora have so far not been deployed in the investigation of constructional attrition.…”
Section: Radically Usage-based Diachronic Construction Grammarmentioning
confidence: 99%