Today’s Innovations, Tomorrow’s Conventions
Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English
Special issue of Functions of Language 32:1 (2025)
Editors
[Functions of Language, 32:1] 2025. v, 161 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 4 July 2025
Published online on 4 July 2025
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Table of Contents
- Changes to the editorial teampp. 1–2
- Today’s innovations, tomorrow’s conventions: Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in EnglishDavid Lorenz & David Tizón-Couto | pp. 3–15
- From constructional innovation to linguistic changeAlexander Bergs | pp. 16–42
- I’m all virtual-peopled out : Creativity and productivity in the case of the English ‘exhaustive’ constructionEva Zehentner | pp. 43–73
- Discourse markers in the making: Just so you know and it just so happensGunther Kaltenböck & Elnora ten Wolde | pp. 74–104
- Emerging inferentials in English? A study of the evolving uses of the present perfect and have toEric Mélac | pp. 105–130
- Some as an indefinite article in Present Day English: A case of paradigmatization and constructional competitionLotte Sommerer & Florent Perek | pp. 131–161
Editorial
Introduction
Articles