Book contents
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Studies in English Language
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present
- Part I Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change
- Part II Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
- Part III Comparative and Typological Approaches
- Chapter 11 The Role Played by Analogy in Processes of Language Change: The Case of English Have-to Compared to Spanish Tener-que
- Chapter 12 Modelling Step Change: The History of Will-Verbs in Germanic
- Chapter 13 Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English
- Chapter 14 American English: No Written Standard before the Twentieth Century?
- References
- Index
Chapter 11 - The Role Played by Analogy in Processes of Language Change: The Case of English Have-to Compared to Spanish Tener-que
from Part III - Comparative and Typological Approaches
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2019
Book contents
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Studies in English Language
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Analysing English Syntax Past and Present
- Part I Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change
- Part II Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change
- Part III Comparative and Typological Approaches
- Chapter 11 The Role Played by Analogy in Processes of Language Change: The Case of English Have-to Compared to Spanish Tener-que
- Chapter 12 Modelling Step Change: The History of Will-Verbs in Germanic
- Chapter 13 Possessives World-Wide: Genitive Variation in Varieties of English
- Chapter 14 American English: No Written Standard before the Twentieth Century?
- References
- Index
Summary
In this chapter we will argue that the outcome of processes of grammaticalisation may be determined to a large extent by analogy, by the force of analogical relations that language users perceive to be present between constructions in their language,1 on the basis of both concrete lexical as well as structural and functional resemblances (cf. earlier work by Fischer 2007, 2011, 2013 and De Smet 2009, 2012, 2013).
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax , pp. 253 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019