Constructions in Contact 2 (Constructional Approaches to Language)

✍ Scribed by Hans C. Boas (editor), Steffen Höder (editor)

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 447
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and insights in three major ways. First, it presents new constructional research on a wide range of language contact scenarios including Afrikaans, American Sign Language, English, French, Malayalam, Norwegian, Spanish, Welsh, as well as contact scenarios that involve typologically different languages. Second, it also addresses other types of scenarios that do not fall into the classic language contact category, such as multilingual practices and language acquisition as emerging multilingualism. Third, it aims to integrate constructionist views on language contact and multilingualism with other approaches that focus on structural, social, and cognitive aspects. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar is a framework particularly well suited for analyzing a wide variety of language contact phenomena from a usage-based perspective.

✦ Table of Contents

Constructions in Contact 2
Editorial page
Title page
Copyirght page
Table of contents
Preface
Widening the scope: Recent trends in constructional contact linguistics
1. Introduction
2. The diasystematic approach in a nutshell
3. Structure and chapters of the volume
References
Section 1. Constructions in multilingual practices
Idioconstructions in conflict: Ad hoc generalization in multilingual speech processing
1. Phenomena under investigation
2. Traditional theories vs. usage-based CxG
2.1 Codeswitching and other multilingual practices
2.2 Speech processing in multilingual speakers – a matter of form or function?
2.3 Multilingual practices from a CxG perspective
3. Multilingual speech processing in CxG
3.1 The basic concepts of Diasystematic CxG
3.2 The multilingual constructicon
3.3 Ad hoc generalization in two ways
3.4 Ad hoc generalization and schematicity
4. Conclusion
Corpus
References
“Ok, qui d’autre na, nobody on the line right now?”: A Diasystematic Construction Grammar approach to discourse markers in bilingual Cajun speech
1. Introduction
2. Historical background and current language contact situation
3. Data and methods
4. Overview of DM use across both languages
5. Signs of congruence of two DM systems in Cajun bilinguals
5.1 The DM Na and mais yeah/yeah mais
5.2 DMs at the border of language switching
6. Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Cognitive models of language contact: An integrated perspective of Diasystematic Construction Grammar and Cognitive Language Contact Phenotypes
1. Introduction
2. A close up on DCxG and CLCP
2.1 Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG)
2.2 Cognitive Language Contact Phenotypes (CLCP)
3. Selected further cognitive models of language contact
The Dual Language Model (Kecskes, 2006)
Muysken’s model of speaker optimization strategies (2013)
The Complex Adaptive System Principles (CASP) model for bilingualism (Filipović & Hawkins, 2019)
Other models in the emerging framework of Cognitive Contact Linguistics (Verschik, 2019; Winter-Froemel, 2019)
4. Integrating DCxG and CLCP
5. Conclusion
References
Section 2. Constructional change in language contact
A Diasystematic Construction Grammar analysis of language change in the Afrikaans and English finite verb complement clause construction
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical preliminaries
3. Contact and the complement construction in Afrikaans and South African English
4. Method
4.1 Corpora
4.2 Data extraction
4.3 Functional classification
4.4 Quantitative analysis
5. Results
5.1 Overall frequency
5.2 Constructional function
6. Discussion
References
Section 3. Language contact between typologically different languages
Non-Dravidian elements and (non)diasystematic change in Malayalam: Non-Dravidian elements and (non)diasystematic change in Malayalam
1. High-contact languages are not categorically different
1.1 “Stratified lexicon” without a lexicon
1.2 Note on the data
2. Language contact in Malayalam
2.1 Sanskrit
2.2 Arabic
2.3 Portuguese and Dutch
2.4 English
2.5 Interim summary: History and hybrid Malayalam
3. The role of non-Dravidian words across social and semantic domains
3.1 Sanskrit
3.2 Arabic
3.3 Portuguese and Dutch
3.4 English
3.5 Interim summary: Word origins and meaning
4. Heterogeneity in Malayalam phonology
4.1 Heterogeneity in sounds
4.2 Heterogeneity in syllable structure
5. Socio-cognitively motivated non-diasystematic change
6. Word-final schwa as a Phonological Language Marker of Malayalam
7. Malayalam as a hybrid language
References
Making one’s way in Welsh: Language contact and constructional change
1. Introduction
2. The English way-construction
3. Cross-linguistic equivalents of the way-construction
4. The Welsh ffordd-construction
5. Welsh ffordd meets English way: Language contact and CxG
6. Conclusions
Glossary
References
From letters to families: Initialized signs in American Sign Language
1. Introduction
2. Lexical borrowing in American Sign Language
2.1 Loans, loan translations, and semantic borrowings
2.2 Fingerspelling and initialization
2.3 Initialization in its social context
3. A database study of initialized signs in American Sign Language
3.1 Identifying initialized signs in a dictionary
3.2 Semantic analysis of initialized signs
3.3 Summary of the dictionary study
4. Constructional analysis of initialized signs
4.1 Multilingualism in Construction Grammar
4.2 Initialized signs are blends in a constructional network
4.3 The functions of alphabetic handshapes
4.4 Initialized signs in a dynamic system
5. Conclusion
References
Appendix
Section 4. Multilingual constructions in language acquisition
Additional language acquisition as emerging multilingualism: A Construction Grammar approach
1. Introduction: Why a constructional approach?
2. Building on previous research
2.1 A constructionist approach to multilingualism: Diasystematic Construction Grammar
2.2 Additional language acquisition and Construction Grammar
2.3 From interlanguage to the multilingual turn: Insights from non-constructionist research
3. Modelling AL acquisition in Diasystematic Construction Grammar: A proposal
3.1 Gradual entrenchment of constructions
3.2 The emerging multilingual constructicon
3.3 Reorganizational processes
4. Summary and outlook
References
Something I was dealing with: Preposition placement in multilingual constructicons
1. Introduction
2. Preliminary considerations
2.1 Descriptive redundancy and cross-linguistic representation
2.2 What preposition placement depends on
3. The current study
3.1 Method
3.2 Results
4. Discussion
4.1 Summary of findings
4.2 Usage-based construction grammar view
4.3 Predictability and adaptability of constructions
5. Conclusion
References
Intensifying constructions in second language acquisition: A diasystematic-constructionist approach
1. Introduction
2. Multilingualism and DCxG
2.1 Multilingualism and language contact in Belgium
2.2 Multilingualism and SLA
2.3 A DCxG view of multilingualism and SLA
3. Intensifying constructions in French and Dutch: A DCxG view
3.1 Intensification from a CxG perspective
3.2 Intensifying constructions at the formal level
3.3 Intensifying constructions at the semantic level
3.4 A diasystematic constructional network of intensification in Dutch and French
4. Corpus data and methods
4.1 Participants
4.2 Task and collected data
4.3 Annotation of the data and methods
5. Intensifying constructions in the diasystem of French-speaking learners of Dutch (non-CLIL and CLIL)
5.1 Intensifying constructions at the schematic level
5.2 Intensifying constructions at the semi-schematic level
5.3 Intensifying constructions at the substantive level
5.4 Discussion: Intensifying constructions in the diasystem of French-speaking learners of Dutch
6. Conclusions
References
Appendix 1. Covarying collexeme analysis
Appendix 1a. L1 French
Appendix 1b. L1 Dutch
Appendix 1c. Non-CLIL Dutch
Appendix 1d. CLIL Dutch
Author index
Construction index
Language index
Subject index