Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change

1. Introduction. The role of change in usage-based conceptions of language (by Mengden, Ferdinand von); 2. Part 1. Challenging mainstream models of language change; 3. Does innovation need reanalysis? (by De Smet, Hendrik); 4. On cognition and communication in usage-based models of language change (by Zeige, Lars Erik); 5. Part 2. The role of usage in semantic change; 6. From inferential to mirative: An interaction-based account of an emerging semantic extension (by Gipper, Sonja); 7. The motivation for using English suspended dangling participles: A Usage-based development of (Inter)subjectivity (by Hayase, Naoko); 8. The nature of speaker creativity in linguistic innovation (by Ishiyama, Osamu); 9. Part 3. The role of usage and structure in language change; 10. Reanalysis and gramma(ticaliza)tion of constructions: The case of the deictic relative construction with perception verbs in French (by Kragh, Kirsten Jeppesen); 11. Constructional change, paradigmatic structure and the orientation of usage processes (by Heltoft, Lars); 12. Filling empty distinctions of expression with content: Usage-motivated assignment of grammatical meaning (by Norgard-Sorensen, Jens); 13. Author index; 14. Subject index