Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective
Published on 1. November 2018
Book
Hardback
494 pages
978-0-19-879584-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways of change are replicated across languages, certain language types and language areas have distinct preferences with respect to what they grammaticalize and how. Previous work has principally addressed this question with specific reference to languages of Southeast and East Asia that do not seem to grammaticalize paradigms of categories in the same manner as Indo-European languages, or form extensive grammaticalization chains. This volume takes a broader approach and proceeds systematically area by area: specialists in the field address the processes of grammaticalization in languages of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, and in creole languages. The studies reveal a number of unique pathways of grammaticalization in each language area, as well as identifying the universal shared features of the phenomenon.
Reviews / Votes
...there is little doubt that this volume is as a pivotal contribution to its field. As a companion to the study of grammaticalization across language families, it is here to stay. As a contribution to the debates on the nature and definition of grammaticalization, it delivers a considerable amount of new insights, puzzling questions and interesting hypotheses...everyone interested in grammaticalization theory should benefit from reading this collection of papers. * Pierre-Yves Modicom, Universite Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, LINGUIST List * We can expect this collection of papers to stay a reference work for many typologists and grammaticalization scholars for the years to come... there is little doubt that this volume is as a pivotal contribution to its field. * Pierre-Yves Modicom, Universite Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux, The Linguist *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
901 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-879584-1 (9780198795841)
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Heiko Narrog is Professor at Tohoku University. He received a PhD in Japanese Studies from the Ruhr University Bochum in 1997, and a PhD in Language Studies from Tokyo University in 2002. He is the author of Modality in Japanese and the Layered Structure of the Clause (Benjamins, 2009), and Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (OUP, 2012) as well as numerous articles in linguistic typology, semantics and language change, and Japanese linguistics.
Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne. He has held visiting professorships at universities across the world, including Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, La Trobe University, the University of Cape Town, Dartmouth College, and Universidade Federal Fluminense. His many publications include The Changing Languages of Europe (OUP, 2006) and The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction (OUP, 2007), both with Tania Kuteva.
Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog are co-editors of the OUP volumes The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (2010; second edition 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization (2010).
Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne. He has held visiting professorships at universities across the world, including Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, La Trobe University, the University of Cape Town, Dartmouth College, and Universidade Federal Fluminense. His many publications include The Changing Languages of Europe (OUP, 2006) and The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction (OUP, 2007), both with Tania Kuteva.
Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog are co-editors of the OUP volumes The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (2010; second edition 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization (2010).
Content
1: Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine: Introduction: Typology and grammaticalization
2: Bernd Heine: Grammaticalization in Africa: Two contrasting hypothese
3: Mohssen Esseesy: Typological features of grammaticalization in Semitic
4: Geoffrey Haig: Grammaticalization and inflectionalization in Iranian
5: OEsten Dahl: Grammaticalization in the languages of Europe
6: Martin Haspelmath: Revisiting the anasynthetic spiral
7: Peter Arkadiev &Timur Maisak: Grammaticalization in the North Caucasian Languages
8: Lars Johanson and Eva A. Csato: Grammaticalization in Turkic
9: Heiko Narrog, Seongha Rhee, and John Whitman: Grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean
10: Alexander R. Coupe: Grammaticalization processes in the languages of South Asia
11: Umberto Ansaldo, Walter Bisang, and Pui Yiu Szeto: Grammaticalization in isolating languages and the notion of complexity
12: Marian Klamer: Typology and grammaticalization in the Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, and Pantar
13: Ilana Mushin: Grammaticalization and typology in Australian Aboriginal languages: Evidence from second position clitic constructions
14: Claire Moyse-Faurie: Grammaticalization in Oceanic languages
15: Marianne Mithun: Shaping typology through grammaticalization: North America
16: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Areal diffusion and the limits of grammaticalization: An Amazonian perspective
17: Roberto Zariquiey: Diachronic stories of body-part nouns in some language families of South America
18: Hiram Smith: Addressing questions of grammaticalization in creoles: It's all about the methodology
19: John McWhorter: Is grammaticalization in Creoles different?
References
Index
2: Bernd Heine: Grammaticalization in Africa: Two contrasting hypothese
3: Mohssen Esseesy: Typological features of grammaticalization in Semitic
4: Geoffrey Haig: Grammaticalization and inflectionalization in Iranian
5: OEsten Dahl: Grammaticalization in the languages of Europe
6: Martin Haspelmath: Revisiting the anasynthetic spiral
7: Peter Arkadiev &Timur Maisak: Grammaticalization in the North Caucasian Languages
8: Lars Johanson and Eva A. Csato: Grammaticalization in Turkic
9: Heiko Narrog, Seongha Rhee, and John Whitman: Grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean
10: Alexander R. Coupe: Grammaticalization processes in the languages of South Asia
11: Umberto Ansaldo, Walter Bisang, and Pui Yiu Szeto: Grammaticalization in isolating languages and the notion of complexity
12: Marian Klamer: Typology and grammaticalization in the Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, and Pantar
13: Ilana Mushin: Grammaticalization and typology in Australian Aboriginal languages: Evidence from second position clitic constructions
14: Claire Moyse-Faurie: Grammaticalization in Oceanic languages
15: Marianne Mithun: Shaping typology through grammaticalization: North America
16: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Areal diffusion and the limits of grammaticalization: An Amazonian perspective
17: Roberto Zariquiey: Diachronic stories of body-part nouns in some language families of South America
18: Hiram Smith: Addressing questions of grammaticalization in creoles: It's all about the methodology
19: John McWhorter: Is grammaticalization in Creoles different?
References
Index