New Directions in Grammaticalization Research

New Directions in Grammaticalization Research
Author: Andrew D.M. Smith
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2015-04-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269041

The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, subjectification and intersubjectification, and grammaticalization and language contact. The contributions consider data from a broad range of spoken and signed languages, including Greek, Japanese, Nigerian Pidgin, Swedish, and Turkish Sign Language. The authors work in a variety of theoretical frameworks, and draw on a number of research traditions. The volume will be of primary interest to historical linguists, though the diversity of approaches and sources of data mean that the volume is also likely have considerable general appeal.

Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers

Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2018-08-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004375422

Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers offers a comprehensive account of the most promising new directions in the vast field of grammaticalization studies. From major theoretical issues to hardly addressed experimental questions, this volume explores new ways to expand, refine or even challenge current ideas on grammaticalization. All contributions, written by leading experts in the fields of grammaticalization and discourse markers, explore issues such as: the impact of Construction Grammar into language change; cyclicity as a driving force of change; the importance of positions and discourse units as predictors of grammaticalization; a renewed way of thinking about philological considerations, or the role of Experimental Pragmatics for hypothesis checking.

New Reflections on Grammaticalization

New Reflections on Grammaticalization
Author: Ilse Wischer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027229557

The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direction of grammaticalization studies. The volume focuses on issues such as grammaticalization and lexicalization; the unidirectionality hypothesis; the issue of the relevance of contexts for grammaticalization; the description of grammaticalization paths. Much of the current work concentrates on such categories, as discourse markers, honorifics or classifiers, which have not previously been central to works on grammaticalization. Other studies take a new perspective on known grammaticalization paths by applying concepts adopted from other linguistic fields, such as prototype theory, morphocentricity, or by discussing their findings from a comparative or typological angle, presenting data from a large number of languages, often based on extensive empirical investigations of written and spoken text corpora.

The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization

The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization
Author: Heiko Narrog
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 948
Release: 2011-10-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199586780

This book presents a critical assessment of research on grammaticalization, a central element in the process by which grammars are created. Leading scholars discuss its core theoretical and methodological bases, report on work in the field, and point to directions for new research. They represent every relevant theoretical perspective and approach.

New Directions for Historical Linguistics

New Directions for Historical Linguistics
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2020-01-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 900441407X

This volume consists of papers based on presentations given at a roundtable on “New Directions for Historical Linguistics: Impact and Synthesis, 50 Years Later,” held at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in 2017, as well as an introduction by the editors.

Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages

Grammatical Change in Indo-European Languages
Author: Vit Bubenik
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009-07-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027289298

The product of a group of scholars who have been working on new directions in Historical Linguistics, this book is focused on questions of grammatical change, and the central issue of grammaticalization in Indo-European languages. Several studies examine particular problems in specific languages, but often with implications for the IE phylum as a whole. Given the historical scope of the data (over a period of four millennia) long range grammatical changes such as the development of gender differences, strategies of definiteness, the prepositional phrase, or of the syntax of the verbal diathesis and aspect, are also treated. The shifting relevance of morphology to syntax, and syntax to morphology, a central motif of this research, has provoked lively debate in the discipline of Historical Linguistics.

New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change

New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change
Author: Sylvie Hancil
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027263434

The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models, such as constructionalization, the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers, and reveal a renewed interest in the typological application of grammaticalization and in the cognitive motivations for unidirectionality. The contributors consider data from a wide range of languages, including several that have not or marginally been looked at in terms of grammaticalization: Chinese, Dutch, (varieties of) English, French, German, Japanese, Maltese, Old Saxon, Spanish, and languages of the South Caucasian and Zhuang Tai-Kadai families. The chapters range from theoretical discussions to fine-grained analyses of new historical and comparative language data. This volume will be of interest to linguists studying morphosyntactic changes in a range of languages, and in particular to those interested in models for grammatical change.

Aspects of Grammaticalization

Aspects of Grammaticalization
Author: Daniel Olmen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110492342

This volume advances our understanding of two highly debated aspects of grammaticalization: its relation to (inter)subjectification and its directionality. These aspects are studied with respect to such phenomena as auxiliaries, discourse markers, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns. Bringing together a wide range of languages, the collection provides insight into the crucial dimensions of grammaticalization research.

Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective

Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective
Author: Heiko Narrog
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0192515357

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.

Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar

Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar
Author: Evie Coussé
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2018-05-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027264163

Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely pretheoretical notion of construction in the theoretical framework of construction grammar. As such, grammaticalization research increasingly interacts and converges with the emerging field of diachronic construction grammar. This volume brings together articles that are situated at the intersection of grammaticalization research and diachronic construction grammar. All articles share an interest in integrating insights from grammaticalization research and construction grammar in order to advance our understanding of empirical cases of grammaticalization. Constructions at various levels of abstractness are investigated, both in well-documented languages, such as Ancient Greek, Latin, Spanish, German, Norwegian and English, and in less-described languages, such as Manchu and Mongolian.