Ten Lectures on a Diachronic Constructionalist Approach to Discourse Structuring Markers

How do you get from 'after all those movies' to 'I went to a movie after all'?

About the author

Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Ph.D. (1964), University of California at Berkeley, is Professor Emerita of Linguistics and English at Stanford University. She has conducted research in historical syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, lexicalization, socio-historical linguistics, and linguistics and literature. Former President of the International Society for Historical Linguistics (1979) and of the Linguistic Society of America (1987), she has (co-)authored five books, including Constructionalization and Constructional Changes (with Graeme Trousdale, 2013). She published over a hundred articles and co-edited six volumes including Approaches to Grammaticalization (with Bernd Heine, 1991, 2 volumes), and The Oxford Handbook of the History of English (with Terttu Nevalainen, OUP 2012). She holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Stockholm and Uppsala.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Elizabeth Traugott
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.2022
• EAN: 9789004506909
• ISBN: 978-90-04-50690-9
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 494 g
• Series: Distinguished Lectures in Cogn
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics