Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar.

Intro -- Modality and Diachronic Construction Grammar -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Modality in Diachronic Construction Grammar: Long-standing questions, new perspectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The contributions in this volume -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- Contractions, constructions and constructional change: Investigating the constructionhood of English modal contractions from a diachronic perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. English modal verb contractions across textbooks, grammars and corpus-based studies -- 3. The constructionhood of modal contractions: Three case studies -- 3.1 Formal properties of contracted modal cxns -- 3.2 Corpus selection and outline for data exploration -- 3.3 Relative frequency distribution across time -- 3.4 Changes in the collostructional behavior of the alternations -- 3.5 Modelling speakers' choice between a contracted modal cxn and its full form -- 4. From contractions to constructions -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Corpora, software, packages and scripts -- References -- Exploring relative degrees of auxiliarization empirically in German modal constructions with wissen and verstehen: Does host class expansion provide enough evidence? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Problem statement: Host class expansion in grammaticalization studies -- 3. Case study -- 3.1 Constructions of dynamic modality with wissen and verstehen -- 3.2 Data -- 3.3 Response and fixed-effect variables -- 3.4 Mixed-effects model and random-effect variables -- 4. Results and discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- Grammaticalization of verdienen into an auxiliary marker of deontic modality: An item-driven usage-based approach -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 2.1 Grammaticalization and constructional concepts -- 2.2 Deontic modality.

3. Methods -- 3.1 Data and identification of constructions with verdienen -- 3.2 Simple collexeme analysis -- 3.3 Semantic classification of strongly attracted lexemes -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- Lex1 and Lex2 -- Movement along the grammaticalization path from LEX to GRAM -- Gram1 and Gram2 -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- The diachrony of Galician certamente and seguramente: A case of grammatical constructionalization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and analytical categories -- 2.1 Manner uses -- 2.2 Epistemic uses -- 2.3 The strengthening use -- 2.4 The pragmatic use -- 2.5 A note on syntax -- 2.6 Ambiguities -- 3. Corpus findings -- 4. A constructionalization approach -- 4.1 The emergence of (inter)subjective adverbs -- 4.2 Seguramente: A new probability marker -- 5. Final remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Funding -- References -- Unfolding constructions: Postmodal auxiliaries in mirative complement patterns -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Objectives of the study -- 1.2 Data -- 2. Postmodality and mental accessing of complements -- 2.1 The modal and postmodal semantics of pouvoir and pitää -- 2.2 Interclausal chains -- 3. Interplay with the lexical semantics of the matrix -- 3.1 Pouvoirpm and pitääpm as markers of going-beyond-epistemic-limits -- 3.2 Pouvoirpm and pitääpm as markers of going-beyond-axiological-limits -- 4. Procedural meaning and interclausal cohesion -- 4.1 From modal possibility and necessity to postmodal asymmetrical relationships -- 4.2 The evolution of pouvoirpm and pitääpm as relational strategies -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- The data collections used -- References -- Horizontal links within and between paradigms: The constructional network of reported directives in German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reported directives in German.

3. Reported directives as a constructional network: Vertical and horizontal links -- 4. Data -- 5. Diachronic changes in horizontal links -- 5.1 Within the network of reported directives: Strengthening of horizontal connections -- 5.2 Paradigmatic opposition between reported statements and reported directives -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Constructionalization of Japanese koto imperatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Japanese koto imperatives -- 2.1 Semantic properties of koto imperatives -- 2.2 Syntactic properties -- 3. Koto imperatives as an instance of constructionalization -- 4. Suspended clauses -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- References -- Index.

This volume explores how Diachronic Construction Grammar can shed new light on changes in a central and well-researched domain of grammar, namely modality.

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