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Constructions in Contact 3
Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact
Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a fresh look at fundamental questions in contact linguistics. This volume continues the series of works on Constructions in Contact (the first two volumes were published in 2018 and 2021). It presents new research on the constructionist modelling of language contact phenomena, the impact of multilingualism on argument structure constructions and the role of phonological units in language contact. The volume thus combines classical areas of constructional research with innovative ones, demonstrating the broad applicability of Construction Grammar for contact linguistics.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 40] 2025. viii, 325 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 13 October 2025
Published online on 13 October 2025
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. vii–viii
- What makes Construction Grammar relevant for contact linguistics — and vice versa?Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder | pp. 1–21
- Diasystematic Construction Grammar at work: The need for a non-modular, data-driven approach to multilingual grammarHans C. Boas and Steffen Höder | pp. 22–78
- Prepositions in English Argument Structure Constructions: Gauging the importance of language contact for diachronic and regional constructional variationMarianne Hundt and Laetitia van Driessche | pp. 79–110
- Language contact and creolization: Motion event encoding in Guianese French CreoleEvelyn Wiesinger | pp. 111–178
- A French connection? The presence of French loan verbs among the earliest dative-alternating ‘transfer’ verbs in Early Modern DutchTimothy Colleman | pp. 179–207
- Patterns in (bilingual) language acquisition: The role of verbs in low-level generalizationsNikolas Koch and Katharina Günther | pp. 208–246
- Construction Grammar and phonology? Diphthongization of /eː/ and /oː/ in New Braunfels GermanMatthias Warmuth | pp. 247–290
- Schemas all the way down? Exploring the notion of intra-word phonological schematicity in intercommunicative decodingAnna Hagel | pp. 291–317
- Author index | pp. 319–320
- Constructions index | p. 321
- Subject index | pp. 323–325