none 10.1075/cal.40.03hun John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 183712175 7373926 1419291 202605111144000038 10.1075 2026-05-11T09:44:53Z 2025-10-13T09:36:06Z 0 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 Constructional schemas and patterns in language contact Over the last decade, Construction Grammar has become increasingly popular in the study of language contact and multilingualism. Indeed, constructional approaches, including Diasystematic Construction Grammar, not only offer a useful theoretical framework for empirical studies, but also provide a fresh look at fundamental questions in contact linguistics. This volume continues the series of works on Constructions in Contact (the first two volumes were published in 2018 and 2021). It presents new research on the constructionist modelling of language contact phenomena, the impact of multilingualism on argument structure constructions and the role of phonological units in language contact. The volume thus combines classical areas of constructional research with innovative ones, demonstrating the broad applicability of Construction Grammar for contact linguistics. 40 10 13 2025 10 13 2025 9789027228277 9789027244574 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/cal.40 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027244574 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027244574.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/cal.40/html Marianne Hundt University of Zürich https://ror.org/02crff812 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6045-2314 Laetitia van Driessche University of Zürich https://ror.org/02crff812 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7823-2176 Gauging the importance of language contact for diachronic and regional constructional variation Abstract Diachronic and regional variation in English Argument Structure Constructions with one and two non-subject arguments involves competition between prepositional and bare noun phrase arguments apparently influenced, among other things, by language contact. Crucially, the answer to the question whether an Argument Structure Construction in a Post-Colonial variety of English constitutes an instance of structural nativisation or not hinges on diachronic evidence. This is the first case study into a sizeable number of Romance loan verbs that investigates competition in complementation patterns across time and space using evidence from corpora of Early and Late Modern English, contemporary British English, and three Post-Colonial Englishes with typologically different substrate languages. The data show that Romance verbs with one and two non-subject complements behave very differently, both diachronically and regionally. On a macro-level, the patterns of variation in PCEs defy a simple answer in terms of language contact or substrate influence. 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