In:Constructions in Contact 3: Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact
Edited by Hans C. Boas and Steffen Höder
[Constructional Approaches to Language 40] 2025
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 13 October 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.40.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.40.toc
Table of contents
Prefacevii
What makes Construction Grammar relevant for contact linguistics — and vice versa?1
Hans C. Boas
Steffen Höder
Diasystematic Construction Grammar at work: The need for a non-modular, data-driven approach to multilingual grammar22
Hans C. Boas
Steffen Höder
Prepositions in English argument structure constructions: Gauging the importance of language contact for diachronic and regional constructional variation79
Marianne Hundt
Laetitia van Driessche
Language contact and creolization: Motion event encoding in Guianese French Creole111
Evelyn Wiesinger
A French connection? The presence of French loan verbs among the earliest dative-alternating ‘transfer’ verbs in Early Modern Dutch179
Timothy Colleman
Patterns in (bilingual) language acquisition: The role of verbs in low-level generalizations208
Nikolas Koch
Katharina Günther
Construction Grammar and Phonology? Diphthongization of /eː/ and /oː/ in New Braunfels German247
Mathias Warmuth
Schemas all the way down? Exploring the notion of intra-word phonological schematicity in intercommunicative decoding291
Anna Hagel
Author index
Constructions index
Subject index
