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Categorization and Constructional Change in Spanish Expressions of 'Becoming'
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In Categorization and Constructional Change Damián Vergara Wilson uses the Spanish change-of-state construction quedar(se) + ADJ to analyze the impact of categorization on constructional change and...
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06 October 2014

In Categorization and Constructional Change Damián Vergara Wilson uses the Spanish change-of-state construction quedar(se) + ADJ to analyze the impact of categorization on constructional change and productivity in data spanning eight centuries. In usage, the appearance of one adjective in the construction triggers the emergence of related ones through analogical extension propelling the expansion of semantic categories of adjectives. Categories develop in different ways reflecting the characteristics of their members in terms of semantics and conventionalization. Emergence tends to relate to the ability of one construction to attract adjective types away from another. This study gives insight into the cognitive status and complex evolution of a schematic construction in a way that supports an instance-based model of memory.
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Pages: 240
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics
Publication Date:
06 October 2014
ISBN: 9789004274440
Format: Hardcover
Damián Vergara Wilson, Ph.D. (2009), University of New Mexico, is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at that university. He has publised articles on sociolinguistics, on linguistic evolution of constructions through usage, and on the emergence Spanish/English bilingual compound verb constructions.