Constructions : : Emerging and Emergent / / ed. by Peter Auer, Stefan Pfänder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• HerausgeberIn: Auer, Peter ,; Pfänder, Stefan,
• MitwirkendeR: Auer, Peter,; Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar,; Breyer, Thiemo,; Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth,; Deppermann, Arnulf,; Ehmer, Oliver,; Günthner, Susanne,; Hopper, Paul J.,; Imo, Wolfgang,; Lindström, Jan,; Maschler, Yael,; Pekarek Doehler, Simona,; Pfänder, Stefan,; Shaer, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: linguae & litterae : Publications of the School of Language and Literature Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (331 p.)

This volume embarks on an exploration of the processual and dynamic character of grammatical constructions in emergence, both from an ‘emergent’ and an ‘emerging’ perspective. ‘Emerging’ constructions develop out of their discourse contexts. Talking of emerging constructions is compatible with a vie...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Constructions: Emergent or emerging ?
• Emergent Grammar and Temporality in Interactional Linguistics
• Emergent grammar for all practical purposes: the on-line formatting of left and right dislocations in French conversation
• Constructions vs. lexical items as sources of complex meanings
• Online changes in syntactic gestalts in spoken German
• Between emergence and sedimentation: Projecting constructions in German interactions
• Improvisation, temporality and emergent constructions
• Verb-first conditionals in German and Swedish: convergence in writing, divergence in speaking
• Action, prosody and emergent constructions: The case of and
• On the emergence of adverbial connectives from Hebrew relative clause constructions