Paradigms regained

The contributions in this volume are anchored in the notions of paradigm and the
paradigmatic organisation of linguistic items. The papers united here are
substantial elaborations and enhancements of concepts as well as case studies that were
presented at a workshop “Paradigms regained” held at the 52nd SLE Annual
Meeting (SLE 2019), which took place from 21st–24th August 2019 at Leipzig University.
Its background is a long-lasting project aiming at assessing the cognitive reality of
(grammatical) paradigms throughout various linguistic domains, thereby testing
this notion for its ability to allow for “graceful integration” (Jackendoff 2011). A
notion like this should be able to account for empirical findings and general cog-
nitive mechanisms. In this volume, different domains of grammatical phenomena
are investigated to illustrate what the concept of grammatical paradigms can and
cannot – yet – explain. The theoretical and conceptual foundations of this project
are grammaticalisation theory, implicational morphology, usage-based
constructional approaches, cognitive semantics, as well as corpus-based and experimental
approaches to grammatical structures in diachronic and synchronic phenomena.