In:Nodes and Networks in Diachronic Construction Grammar
Edited by Lotte Sommerer and Elena Smirnova
[Constructional Approaches to Language 27] 2020
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 13 May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.27.toc
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Table of contents
Introduction: The nature of the node and the network – Open questions in Diachronic
Construction Grammar1
Elena Smirnova
Lotte Sommerer
The nodes: Creation, change, and loss
Constructionalization and the Sorites Paradox: The emergence of the into-causative45
Susanne Flach
Constructionalization, constructional competition and constructional
death: Investigating the demise of Old English POSS DEM
constructions69
Lotte Sommerer
The links: Vertical and horizontal relations
(Re)shaping the constructional network: Shifts and reorganizations in the network hierarchy107
Emeline Gyselink
Productivity and schematicity in constructional change141
Florent Perek
Constructional networks and the development of benefactive ditransitives
in English167
Eva Zehentner
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Allostructions, homostructions, or a constructional family? Changes in the network of secondary predicate constructions in Middle
English213
Michael Percillier
Converging variations and the emergence of horizontal links: To-contraction in American English243
David Lorenz
Beyond existing models
Paradigms lost – paradigms regained: Paradigms as hyper-constructions277
Gabriele Diewald
Putting connections centre stage in Diachronic Construction
Grammar317
Sara Budts
Peter Petré
Index353
