Constructions in Contact: Constructional Perspectives on Contact Phenomena in Germanic Languages

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The last three decades have seen the emergence of Construction Grammar as a major research paradigm in linguistics. At the same time, very few researchers have taken a constructionist perspective on language contact phenomena. This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of original contributions providing insights into language contact phenomena from a constructionist perspective. Focusing primarily on Germanic languages, the papers in this volume demonstrate how the notion of construction can be fruitfully applied to investigate how a range of different language contact phenomena can be systematically analyzed from the perspectives of both form and meaning.

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  Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic...

  • 2018-12-15
  • 324 pages
  • Ebook
  • John Benjamins Publishing Company

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