{"title":"Modelling Step Change: The History ofWill-Verbs in Germanic","authors":"Kersti Börjars, Nigel Vincent","doi":"10.1017/9781108303576.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117616,"journal":{"name":"Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128612856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Misreading and Language Change: A Foray into Qualitative Historical Linguistics","authors":"Sylvia Adamson","doi":"10.1017/9781108303576.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117616,"journal":{"name":"Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133002853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Comparative Modals Converging or Diverging in English? Different Answers from the Perspectives of Grammaticalisation and Constructionalisation","authors":"E. Traugott","doi":"10.1017/9781108303576.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.005","url":null,"abstract":"In the last few years several papers have appeared on the synchrony and diachrony of the ‘comparative modal’ (had/'d) better, inspired by Denison and Cort (2010), which pays particular attention to the rise of ‘bare’ better, as in You better go. Van der Auwera et al. (2013) provide extensive statistical analysis of British and American usage of 'd better and its variants. Van der Auwera andDeWit (2010) investigate another comparative had/'d rather as well in the Brown family of corpora. A third comparative modal had/'d sooner is mentioned in these papers. Van linden (2015) investigates all three in the history of American English as represented in theCorpus of Historical American English (COHA), from the perspective of grammaticalisation. Likewise, Traugott (2016b) investigates all three, but in the context of the role of semantic modal maps in a constructional approach to change. Earlier works include van der Gaaf (1904, 1912). Fairly recent examples from the British National Corpus (BYU-BNC) of the three comparative modals are presented in (1a)–(1d).","PeriodicalId":117616,"journal":{"name":"Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131937040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Conjunctionandin Phrasal and Clausal Structures in theOld Bailey Corpus","authors":"Merja Kytö, Erik Smitterberg","doi":"10.1017/9781108303576.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117616,"journal":{"name":"Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125919973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Is Special about Pronouns?","authors":"J. Payne","doi":"10.1017/9781108303576.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117616,"journal":{"name":"Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax","volume":"360 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131760784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WhatFor?","authors":"B. Aarts","doi":"10.1017/9781108303576.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117616,"journal":{"name":"Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125702859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108303576.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117616,"journal":{"name":"Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax","volume":"173 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116131999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Definite Article in Old English: Evidence from Ælfric’sGrammar","authors":"C. Allen","doi":"10.1017/9781108303576.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117616,"journal":{"name":"Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126549609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English","authors":"B. Heller, Benedikt Szmrecsanyi","doi":"10.1017/9781108303576.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117616,"journal":{"name":"Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133501186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role Played by Analogy in Processes of Language Change: The Case of EnglishHave-toCompared to SpanishTener-que","authors":"O. Fischer, H. Olbertz","doi":"10.1017/9781108303576.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303576.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":117616,"journal":{"name":"Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115730220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}