Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change

Abstract

1. Introduction. The role of change in usage-based conceptions of language (by Mengden, Ferdinand von) 2. Part 1. Challenging mainstream models of language change 3. Does innovation need reanalysis? (by De Smet, Hendrik) 4. On cognition and communication in usage-based models of language change (by Zeige, Lars Erik) 5. Part 2. The role of usage in semantic change 6. From inferential to mirative: An interaction-based account of an emerging semantic extension (by Gipper, Sonja) 7. The motivation for using English suspended dangling participles: A Usage-based development of (Inter)subjectivity (by Hayase, Naoko) 8. The nature of speaker creativity in linguistic innovation (by Ishiyama, Osamu) 9. Part 3. The role of usage and structure in language change 10. Reanalysis and gramma(ticaliza)tion of constructions: The case of the deictic relative construction with perception verbs in French (by Kragh, Kirsten Jeppesen) 11. Constructional change, paradigmatic structure and the orientation of usage processes (by Heltoft, Lars) 12. Filling empty distinctions of expression with content: Usage-motivated assignment of grammatical meaning (by Norgard-Sorensen, Jens) 13. Author index 14. Subject index