Article published In: On mood and speech function and the ‘why’ of text analysis: In honour of Margaret Berry
Edited by Lise Fontaine, Miriam Taverniers and Kristin Davidse
[Functions of Language 26:1] 2019
► pp. 56–63
The author and the text in radically usage-based diachronic construction grammar, or why historical linguists have started analysing text again
Published online: 27 May 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.00017.noe
https://doi.org/10.1075/fol.00017.noe
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Usage-based linguistics and diachronic construction grammar
- 3.Internal vs. external systems
- 4.Entrenchment, constructional innovation, corpora and texts
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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