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ISBN/EAN: 9783110633856

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978-3-11-063385-6
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Autor/in: Eva Zehentner
Titel: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]; Competition in Language Change - The Rise of the English Dative Alternation
Verlag: de Gruyter Mouton
476 Seiten
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019-06-17
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Sprache: Englisch
129,95 € (DE)
129,95 € (AT)
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52 b/w ill., 22 b/w tbl.

EA; E107; Nonbooks, PBS / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Medizin, allgemein; Verstehen; Dative Alternation; Ditransitive; Constructional Competition; Evolutionary Construction Grammar; BB; EA; BC

This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics – why variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated – by revisiting the so far neglected history of the English dative alternation.

The alternation between a nominal and a prepositional ditransitive pattern (John gave Mary a book vs. John gave a book to Mary) emerged in Middle English and is closely connected to broader changes at that time. Accordingly, the main quantitative investigation focuses on ditransitive patterns in the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English; in addition, the book employs an Evolutionary Game Theory model. The results are approached from an ‘evolutionary construction grammar’ perspective, combining evolutionary thinking with diachronic constructionist notions, and the alternation’s emergence is interpreted as a story of constructional innovation, competition, cooperation and co-evolution.

This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics – why variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated – by revisiting the so far neglected history of the English dative alternation.

The alternation between a nominal and a prepositional ditransitive pattern (John gave Mary a book vs. John gave a book to Mary) emerged in Middle English and is closely connected to broader changes at that time. Accordingly, the main quantitative investigation focuses on ditransitive patterns in the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English; in addition, the book employs an Evolutionary Game Theory model. The results are approached from an ‘evolutionary construction grammar’ perspective, combining evolutionary thinking with diachronic constructionist notions, and the alternation’s emergence is interpreted as a story of constructional innovation, competition, cooperation and co-evolution.