In:Constructions in Contact: Constructional perspectives on contact phenomena in Germanic languages
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
[Constructional Approaches to Language 24] 2018
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 12 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.24.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.24.toc
Table of contents
Preface
Part IConstructions in contact: A theoretical overview
Construction Grammar and language contact: An introduction
Hans C. Boas
Höder Steffen
Grammar is community-specific: Background and basic concepts of Diasystematic Construction Grammar
Höder Steffen
Part IIConstructional variation and change in contact
Towards a constructional analysis of the progressive aspect in Texas German
Margo Blevins
Tense and aspect marking in (Low) German perfect constructions based on variety contact
Kathrin Weber
Distributional assimilation in constructional semantics: On contact-related semantic shifts in Afrikaans three-argument constructions
Timothy Colleman
Part IIIItem-based patterns and constructional generalizations in contact
Constructions as cross-linguistic generalizations over instances: Passive patterns in contact
Jan-Ola Östman
Texas German and English word order constructions in contact
Ryan Dux
Part IVSemantic frames in contact
A constructional account of the modal particle ‘ja’ in Texas German
Hans C. Boas
Frames change in language contact environments: A case study of schleichen (‘to sneak’) and kommen (‘to come’)
David Hünlich
Author index
Index of constructions
Subject index
