Diachronic Slavonic Syntax. Gradual Changes in Focus
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SYSNO ASEP
0356257
Document Type
M - Monograph Chapter
R&D Document Type
Monograph Chapter
Title
A Construction Grammar approach to grammatical change
Author(s)
Fried, Mirjam (UJC-A)
Source Title
Diachronic Slavonic Syntax. Gradual Changes in Focus. - München : Sagner, 2010 / Hansen B. ; Grković-Major J.
- ISBN 978-3-86688-096-2
Pages
s. 53-62
Number of pages
10 s.
Number of pages
208
Language
eng - English
Country
DE - Germany
Keywords
variability ; construction grammar ; participles
Subject RIV
AI - Linguistics
CEZ
AV0Z90610518 - UJC-A (2005-2011)
Annotation
A major challenge in diachronic analysis concerns the issue of capturing, in a systematic way, the inherently dynamic nature of linguistic structure and the gradience of grammatical change. This paper is an attempt to address the challenge by exploring the viability of Construction Grammar as a tool of diachronic analysis. The constructional approach and the attendant theoretical claims are illustrated by one particular grammatical shift in Old Czech: the development of the ‘long’ form active present participle from a semantically transparent (participial) member of the verbal paradigm to an adjective-like modifier.
