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Studying Language Change in the 21st Century
Theory and Methodologies
Series: - Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics, Volume: 16
The volume brings together contributions by scholars working in different theoretical frameworks interested in systematic explanation of language change and the interrelation between current linguistic theories and modern analytical tools and methodology; the integrative basis of all work included in the volume is the special focus on phenomena at the interface of semantics and syntax and the implications of corpus-based, quantitative analyses for researching diachrony.
The issues addressed in the 13 papers include the following: explanations of change in the interface of semantics and syntax; universal constraints and principles of language change (e.g., economy, reanalysis, analogy) and the possibility of predicting language change; constructional approaches to change and their relation to corpus-based research; language contact as an explanation of change and approaches to historical bilingualism and language contact, all on the basis of empirical corpus findings; the challenges of creating diachronic corpora and the question of how quantitative linguistics and diachronic corpora inform explanations of language change variation.
The issues addressed in the 13 papers include the following: explanations of change in the interface of semantics and syntax; universal constraints and principles of language change (e.g., economy, reanalysis, analogy) and the possibility of predicting language change; constructional approaches to change and their relation to corpus-based research; language contact as an explanation of change and approaches to historical bilingualism and language contact, all on the basis of empirical corpus findings; the challenges of creating diachronic corpora and the question of how quantitative linguistics and diachronic corpora inform explanations of language change variation.
Nikolaos Lavidas is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests lie in the areas of language change, historical linguistics, syntax-semantics interface, argument structure, (historical) language contact and historical corpora. He is the author of Transitivity Alternations in Diachrony. Changes in Argument Structure and Voice Morphology (C-S-P, 2009) and of The Diachrony of Written Language Contact. A Contrastive Approach (Brill, 2021).
Kiki Nikiforidou is Professor of Linguistics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Her research interests lie in the areas of construction grammar, cognitive semantics, grammaticalization, and lexicography. Her current research focuses on the relationship of grammar to discourse and grammatical approaches to genre. She has recently co-edited the volume Advances in Frame Semantics (Benjamins, 2013) and the special issue "On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre" (Benjamins 2015); she is currently co-editing The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar (to appear in 2024).
Kiki Nikiforidou is Professor of Linguistics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Her research interests lie in the areas of construction grammar, cognitive semantics, grammaticalization, and lexicography. Her current research focuses on the relationship of grammar to discourse and grammatical approaches to genre. She has recently co-edited the volume Advances in Frame Semantics (Benjamins, 2013) and the special issue "On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre" (Benjamins 2015); she is currently co-editing The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar (to appear in 2024).
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Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
âNikolaos Lavidas and Kiki Nikiforidou
2 On the Redundancy of a Theory of Language Contact: Cue-Based Reconstruction in a Socio-linguistically Informed Manner
âIoanna Sitaridou
3 Modeling Reanalysis, Naturally
âLeah Bauke, Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie
4 The Spread of the VO Pattern in Subject Relative Clauses: The OV/ VO Alternation in Old and Middle English
âBarthe Bloom
5 The Syntax and Semantics of the Old English Predicative Construction
âJavier MartÃn Arista
6 Antagonistic Complement Structures and Cyclical Change in English and Greek
âKonstantinos Sampanis and Eleni Karantzola
7 Perfect âUnder Constructionâ: A Diachronic Perspective from Medieval and Modern Greek
âThanasis Giannaris and Nikolaos Pantelidis
8 From Relativizer to Adverbial Connective: Transitional Constructions and Reanalysis in Medieval Greek (o)pu [á½¹ÏÎ¿Ï ]
âKiki Nikiforidou
9 Purpose Verbs, Phrases and Clauses in Greek of the 20th Century: A Diachronic Corpus Study
âGeorgia Fragaki and Dionysis Goutsos
10 Change from above in a Sixteenth-Century Corpus of Tuscan Correspondence: The Spread of the Codified Form of the Masculine Determiner
âEleonora Serra
11 Detecting Prescriptivismâs Effects on Language Change: The Corpus-Linguistic Approach
âSpiros A. Moschonas
12 Tracing the Evolution of Subjectless ing-/ed-supplements in English: A Diachronic Corpus-Based Analysis
âCarla Bouzada-Jabois
13 How Does Language Change (Not) Affect Translation? A Corpus-Based Study on Lexical Transfer in Renaissance English and Greek Literary Texts
âThomi Gamagari and Nikolaos Lavidas
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
âNikolaos Lavidas and Kiki Nikiforidou
Part 1 New Theories, New Challenges
2 On the Redundancy of a Theory of Language Contact: Cue-Based Reconstruction in a Socio-linguistically Informed Manner
âIoanna Sitaridou
3 Modeling Reanalysis, Naturally
âLeah Bauke, Dagmar Haumann and Kristin Killie
4 The Spread of the VO Pattern in Subject Relative Clauses: The OV/ VO Alternation in Old and Middle English
âBarthe Bloom
5 The Syntax and Semantics of the Old English Predicative Construction
âJavier MartÃn Arista
6 Antagonistic Complement Structures and Cyclical Change in English and Greek
âKonstantinos Sampanis and Eleni Karantzola
7 Perfect âUnder Constructionâ: A Diachronic Perspective from Medieval and Modern Greek
âThanasis Giannaris and Nikolaos Pantelidis
Part 2 New Theories, New Tools
8 From Relativizer to Adverbial Connective: Transitional Constructions and Reanalysis in Medieval Greek (o)pu [á½¹ÏÎ¿Ï ]
âKiki Nikiforidou
9 Purpose Verbs, Phrases and Clauses in Greek of the 20th Century: A Diachronic Corpus Study
âGeorgia Fragaki and Dionysis Goutsos
10 Change from above in a Sixteenth-Century Corpus of Tuscan Correspondence: The Spread of the Codified Form of the Masculine Determiner
âEleonora Serra
11 Detecting Prescriptivismâs Effects on Language Change: The Corpus-Linguistic Approach
âSpiros A. Moschonas
12 Tracing the Evolution of Subjectless ing-/ed-supplements in English: A Diachronic Corpus-Based Analysis
âCarla Bouzada-Jabois
13 How Does Language Change (Not) Affect Translation? A Corpus-Based Study on Lexical Transfer in Renaissance English and Greek Literary Texts
âThomi Gamagari and Nikolaos Lavidas
Departments of Linguistics, Departments of Greek, Departments of English, Universities, specialists of historical linguistics, undergraduate students, postgraduate students. Relevant subject areas: Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Historical Corpora.