Summary Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse
family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, ie form-meaning …

This paper discusses the role of interactional and cognitive mechanisms in the emergence
of (proto) linguistic structures and the evolution of (proto) language (s). Both the social …

This book is a contribution to the growing field of historical cognitive linguistics, in particular
historical constructionalist pragmatics. Cognitive linguistics is a perspective on the study of …

This paper examines, on the basis of a longitudinal corpus of 50 early modern authors, how
change at the aggregate level of the community interacts with variation and change at the …

This paper contrasts two views of constructions that have emerged over the last decades of
constructionist research. On the one hand, constructions are often treated in categorical …

The evolution of language has developed into a large research field. Two questions are
particularly relevant for this strand of research: firstly, how did the human capacity for …

Previous research has tracked the history of the theme-recipient alternation (or:“dative”
alternation) in Chinese, but few studies have embedded their analysis in a probabilistic …

Based on a corpus of private correspondence written by 16 authors from the Golden Age
period, this study analyses the idiolectal distributions of three distinctive variants of early …

This paper is concerned with the relationship between complexity and variation. The main
goal is to lay out the conceptual foundations and to develop and systematize reasonable …

Endeavors to computationally model language variation and change are ever increasing.
While analyses of recent diachronic trends are frequently conducted, long-term trends …