Today’s innovations, tomorrow’s conventions
Usage-based approaches to incipient developments in English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7154436 |
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| Authors | David Lorenz (0000-0002-7451-099X, Lund University), David Tizón-Couto (0000-0003-0788-7954, Universidade de Vigo) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-15 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-04 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Functions of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0929-998X • E-ISSN: 1569-9765 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/fol.00067.lor |
| OpenAlex | W4410432548 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
In cognitive approaches to language, linguistic structures are seen as inherently dynamic; they are constantly emergent from usage events and become entrenched and conventionalized through repetition (in slightly varying flavors, see amongst others Auer & Pfänder 2011; Bybee 2006; Diessel 2019; Hopper 1998; Schmid 2020). There is no principled distinction between synchronic states of a language and diachronic change from one state to another (see Diessel 2019: 4; Hilpert 2019: 110). Under these premises, we can study contemporary language use with a perspective of potential and incipient change
Political science · Lexicography and Language Studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Grammaticalization
The Dynamics of the Linguistic System
The Grammar Network
Grammatical ChangeOrigins, Nature, Outcomes
Creativity within and outside the linguistic system
The seamlessness of grammatical innovation
Potential grammaticalization of epistemic phrases
Everything -cleft constructions in spoken British English
When grammaticalization does not occur
How gradual change progresses
Language change in a constructional network
The changing functions of competing forms
Analogy as driving force of language change
From Usage to Grammar
Cooptation as a discourse strategy
The origins of grammaticalization in the verbalization of experience
On language change
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