Grammaticalization and Language Change
New reflections
Published on 30. October 2012
Book
Hardback
342 pages
978-90-272-0597-1 (ISBN)
Description
This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features, and outcomes of these changes. New theoretical reflections are offered on the pragmatic motivation of grammaticalization paths, process-oriented differences between grammaticalization, lexicalization and degrammaticalization, the question of gradualness and pace of grammaticalization, and deictics as a distinct source of grammaticalization. The articles describe various constructional and distributional changes affecting deictics, determiners, reflexives, clitics, nouns, affixes, adverbs and (auxiliary) verbs, mainly in the Germanic and Romance languages. The volume will be of great interest to historical linguists working on grammaticalization and related changes, and to all linguists working on the interface between morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
775 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-0597-1 (9789027205971)
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Kristin Davidse | Tine Breban | Lieselotte Brems
Grammaticalization and Language Change
New reflections
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Content
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction: New reflections on the sources, outcomes, defining features and motivations of grammaticalization (by Breban, Tine); 3. Buhler's two-field theory of pointing and naming and the deictic origins of grammatical morphemes (by Diessel, Holger); 4. On the origins of grammaticalization and other types of language change in discourse strategies (by Waltereit, Richard); 5. Lehmann's parameters revisited (by Norde, Muriel); 6. "Paradigmatic integration": The fourth stage in an expanded grammaticalization scenario (by Diewald, Gabriele); 7. "The ghosts of old morphology": Lexicalization or (de)grammaticalization? (by Brinton, Laurel J.); 8. Grammaticalization, constructions and the grammaticalization of constructions (by Trousdale, Graeme); 9. Gradualness of grammaticalization in Romance. The position of French, Spanish and Italian (by De Mulder, Walter); 10. Development of periphrastic tense and aspect constructions in Irish and Welsh (by Ronan, Patricia); 11. Emergence and grammaticalization of constructions within the se me network of Spanish (by Melis, Chantal); 12. A discourse-based analysis of object clitic doubling in Spanish (by Rozas, Victoria Vazquez); 13. The many careers of negative polarity items (by Eckardt, Regine); 14. Author Index; 15. Subject Index