Expressions of futurity in contemporary English: a Construction Grammar perspective
Autor(en): | Bergs, Alexander | Stichwörter: | Language & Linguistics; Linguistics | Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 | Herausgeber: | CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS | Journal: | ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS | Volumen: | 14 | Ausgabe: | 2, SI | Startseite: | 217 | Seitenende: | 238 | Zusammenfassung: | This article describes and analyses five different ways of expressing futurity in English (shall/will, be going to, be to, the simple present and the present progressive) in a Construction Grammar framework. It suggests that the different expressions can be captured as an onomasiologically motivated family of constructions in which the single constructions are differentiated by complex co- and contextual configurations. The latter can be elegantly captured in a Construction Grammar framework since constructions by definition can include pragmatic features. Also, this article claims that constructions may be equipped with an additional `context slot', in which co- and contextual information can be stored. In a final section, this article turns to the issue of tense as a grammatical phenomenon and its genesis in grammaticalisation processes. It is suggested that a Construction Grammar account can make the age-old debate about a future tense in English redundant. Instead, it complements studies in grammaticalisation and opens up some interesting perspectives on parallel developments in the onto- and phylogenesis of constructions. |
Beschreibung: | Seminar on What Future for the Future Tense in English, Univ London, Inst English Studies, London, ENGLAND, AUG 29-SEP 02, 2006 |
ISSN: | 13606743 | DOI: | 10.1017/S1360674310000067 |
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