none 10.1075/cal.30.09lep John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 121638674 3673670 1419291 202507021843000028 10.1075 2025-07-02T12:43:26Z 2020-11-28T03:22:31Z 3 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 Ryan Lepic Gallaudet University https://ror.org/02b9aym09 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6268-790X Initialized signs in American Sign Language Abstract This study analyzes a database of initialized signs, which are formed with handshapes corresponding to English letters, collected from an ASL dictionary. ASL handshapes are classified as either primarily used for initialization, such as the R handshape, or rarely used for initialization, such as the X handshape. Additionally, initialized signs are shown to forge kind-of and whole-part relationships with existing ASL signs. An example is b iology , which derives from ASL science , reflecting that ‘biology is a kind of science’. 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