The concepts of constructional mismatch and type-shifting from the perspective of grammaticalization

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ID5775868
AutoresElizabeth Closs Traugott (0000-0002-1016-7803, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen18
Número4
Fecha de publicación2007-01-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCognitive Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0936-5907 • E-ISSN: 1613-3641
EditorialDe Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/cog.2007.027
OpenAlexW2041744883
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas52
Referencias citadas7

The concepts mismatch, type-shifting, and coercion are central to much recent work on cognitive linguistics. In a number of papers, Michaelis has investigated entity and event coercion (Michaelis 2003a, b, 2004 a, b). I address her question "what conditions favor the diachronic development of shift constructions" (Michaelis 2004a: 8) from the perspective of grammaticalization, with particular reference to the development of partitive constructions like a bit of apple into degree modifier constructions like a bit of a hypocrite . I show why these are different constructions, and conclude that the most important factors have to do with matching quantitative implicatures to already extant quantifying degree modifiers with NP heads, and with the strategies for expressing how much "pragmatic slack" (Lasersohn 1999) is available in computing denotations

Grammaticalization · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation