none 10.1075/cal.30 John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 121638659 3673670 1419291 202507021843000028 10.1075 2025-07-02T12:42:18Z 2020-11-28T03:22:31Z 10 10.1075/rcl.00214.pav 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