Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections

Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections
ISBN-10
9027273235
ISBN-13
9789027273239
Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Pages
342
Language
English
Published
2012-10-30
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing
Authors
Kristin Davidse, Lieselotte Brems, Tine Breban

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.

Get the book

Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Search the book
eBay.com
eBay.com
Search the book

Other editions

Similar books

  • Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese: A formal view
    Grammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese: A formal view
    By Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu

    This book should be of great interest to Chinese linguists and readers interested in language change in different languages.

  • New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change
    New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change
    By Sylvie Hancil, Tine Breban, José Vicente Lozano

    In Unity and Diversity in Grammaticalization Scenarios: Eight Typological Contributions, Walter Bisang & Andrej Malchukov (eds). Heine, Bernd, Narrog, Heiko & Long, Haiping. 2016b. Constructional change vs. grammaticalization: From ...

  • Lexicalization and Language Change
    Lexicalization and Language Change
    By Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Laurel J. Brinton

    In Fischer , Rosenbach , and Stein , eds . , 355–370 . Wischer , Ilse and Gabriele Diewald , eds . 2002. New Reflections on GrammaticalizationProceedings from the International Symposium on Grammaticalization , 17–19 June 1999 , Potsdam ...

  • Grammaticalization: Current Views and Issues
    Grammaticalization: Current Views and Issues
    By Ekkehard Konig, Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler

    This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective.

  • Motives for Language Change
    Motives for Language Change
    By Raymond Hickey

    This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied.

  • Language Change
    Language Change
    By Joan Bybee

    This new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.

  • Grammatical Change: Origins, Nature, Outcomes
    Grammatical Change: Origins, Nature, Outcomes
    By John Whitman, Dianne Jonas, Andrew Garrett

    This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field.

  • Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal Papers
    Grammatical Change and Linguistic Theory: The Rosendal Papers
    By Þórhallur Eyþórsson

    This book contains 15 revised papers originally presented at a symposium at Rosendal, Norway, under the aegis of The Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

  • Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English
    Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English
    By Olga Fischer, Dieter Stein, Anette Rosenbach

    The volume is concentrated around a number of themes that are important or controversial in grammaticalization studies, such as the principle of unidirectionality, the relation between lexicalization and grammaticalization — and connected ...

  • Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers: New Issues in the Study of Language Change
    Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers: New Issues in the Study of Language Change

    “The rise of discourse markers in Italian: a specific type of language change”. In Approaches to Discourse Particles, edited by Kerstin Fischer. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 61–76. chapter 5 Grammaticalization, Distance, Immediacy and ...