Age-related variation and language change in Early Modern English

Nevalainen, Terttu

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“…From the perspective of their productivity, the subschema with CAM verbs developed following a S-shaped curve, with a slow beginning followed by a rapid expansion (Nevalainen 2015). However, it has been shown that the micro-construction with traer dominated the subschema until the 15th century, while the variant with llevar developed later and more slowly.…”

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“…8 From the 19th century on, the productivity of the subschema increased strongly. Thus, the productivity profile of the subschema follows the typical S-shaped curve with a slow beginning followed by a rapid expansion (Nevalainen 2015). Considering this rise in productivity, it is to be expected that the subschema has undergone formal changes over time that reveal an increasing grammaticalization pattern.…”

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From Motion to Causation: The Diachrony of the Spanish Causative Constructions with traer (‘Bring’) and llevar (‘Take’)

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Enghels

2023

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This paper describes the historical evolution of the Spanish causative micro-constructions with the motion verbs llevar (‘take’) and traer (‘bring’) (e.g., el miedo llevó al ladrón a cometer un error, ‘the fear caused the thief to make a mistake’). In order to reconstruct the historical development of these micro-constructions between the 13th and 20th centuries, all causative uses of llevar and traer were extracted from the Corpus del Diccionario Histórico. This corpus was annotated for a series of formal and semantic parameters that count as indexes of grammaticalization, and was submitted to a quantitative productivity analysis. The results point to the existence of a subschema formed of verbs of caused accompanied motion, which has semantically specialized in the expression of indirect causation. From a formal point of view, this subschema is characterized by a low level of syntactic incorporation of the causative verb and the infinitive. In addition, it is shown that the productivity of the causative micro-constructions under study is determined by semantic changes experienced by llevar and traer as full lexical verbs during the history of Spanish. The late development of the micro-construction with llevar is explained by the initial tendency of this verb to express motion events not bounded by an endpoint. From the 16th century onwards, the decline in the micro-construction with traer and the rise in the micro-construction with llevar results from the consolidation of the deictic meaning of the verb pair.

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From Motion to Causation: The Diachrony of the Spanish Causative Constructions with traer (‘Bring’) and llevar (‘Take’)

Soler

Enghels

2023

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Chapter 1. Language acquisition across the lifespan in historical sociolinguistics

Sanz-Sánchez

2024

Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change

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The study of language variation and change has long been rooted in the effects of acquisition at different points of the lifespan, but the potential for language acquisition theory and data to inform sociohistorical approaches to language diachrony has not always been recognized. In this introductory chapter, the application of an acquisitionally informed lens to the research on language variation and change is justified on theoretical, methodological, and heuristic grounds. Following an overview of the existing research on the role of age in the acquisition of variation and the emergence of sociolinguistic norms, the chapter summarizes previous applications of acquisition theory in historical sociolinguistics. This panoramic review is then used to articulate the potential for a lifelong view of language acquisition to serve as a powerful instrument in the historical sociolinguist’s toolkit. Ultimately, the goal is to supplement other methodologies to produce more thorough explanations of language change by centering a language developmental perspective in the praxis of historical sociolinguistics.

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Chapter 8. African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia

Siebers¹

2019

Studies in Language Variation

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Age-related variation and language change in Early Modern English

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

From Motion to Causation: The Diachrony of the Spanish Causative Constructions with traer (‘Bring’) and llevar (‘Take’)

From Motion to Causation: The Diachrony of the Spanish Causative Constructions with traer (‘Bring’) and llevar (‘Take’)

Chapter 1. Language acquisition across the lifespan in historical sociolinguistics

Chapter 8. African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia

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