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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 May 2025
Chapter 10 provides a conclusion and outlook. It summarizes how the three principles of competition, iconicity and economy of expression help to explain language change in the CPs. In addition, it asks how the findings obtained on the CPs and their morphologically and semantically related CPs can be transferred to other cases of competition (e.g. to phrasal verbs and their corresponding simple verbs). More than that, the present study adds to research on semantic–syntactic mismatches in cases of lexialization and provides new evidence on constructions which run counter to the trend of the English language to become ever more analytic. The latter findings tie in with such other cases of semantic competition as the gentive variation, the dative alternation or the comparative alternation.
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