none 10.1075/cal.30.02urb John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 121638661 3673670 1419291 202507021843000028 10.1075 2025-07-02T12:42:33Z 2020-11-28T03:22:31Z 2 1573-594X 10.1075/cal https://benjamins.com/ catalog/cal Hans C. Boas University of Texas at Austin https://ror.org/00hj54h04 Steffen Höder Kiel University https://ror.org/04v76ef78 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5129-3443 Language change, multilingual practices, and additional language acquisition The last few years have seen a steadily increasing interest in constructional approaches to language contact. This volume builds on previous constructionist work, in particular Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) and the volume Constructions in Contact (2018) and extends its methodology and insights in three major ways. First, it presents new constructional research on a wide range of language contact scenarios including Afrikaans, American Sign Language, English, French, Malayalam, Norwegian, Spanish, Welsh, as well as contact scenarios that involve typologically different languages. Second, it also addresses other types of scenarios that do not fall into the classic language contact category, such as multilingual practices and language acquisition as emerging multilingualism. Third, it aims to integrate constructionist views on language contact and multilingualism with other approaches that focus on structural, social, and cognitive aspects. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar is a framework particularly well suited for analyzing a wide variety of language contact phenomena from a usage-based perspective. 30 6 3 2021 5 19 2021 9789027208620 9789027259974 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/cal.30 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027259974 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027259974.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/cal.30/html Aileen Urban Kiel University https://ror.org/04v76ef78 Ad hoc generalization in multilingual speech processing Abstract On the basis of corpus data from Norwegian and Swedish as heritage languages in the United States of America, this article explores the role of potentially conflicting information in constructs that cannot be considered as stereotypical multilingual practices in classical approaches, such as Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame model or Muysken’s Code-Mixing model. Following the approach of Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG), the article focuses on the differentiation between diaconstructions, i. e. language-unspecific elements the involved languages have in common, and idioconstructions, i. e. language-specific elements that distinguish them. From this perspective, typical multilingual practices can be analyzed as constructs comprising a combination of idioconstructions that carry conflicting pragmatic information. The article proposes that conflicts of this kind reflect a spontaneous generalization, i. e. pragmatic bleaching, of the involved idioconstructions. 6 3 2021 5 19 2021 17 53 10.1075/cal.30.02urb https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.30.02urb https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/cal.30.02urb/html CANS = Corpus of American Nordic Speech v.3 Oslo University . http://tekstlab.uio.no/norskiamerika/korpus.html ( last access : 12/11/2019 ). Svenskans beskrivning 32. 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