Perspectives on Grammaticalization

Perspectives on Grammaticalization
Author: William Pagliuca
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1994-08-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027276757

This is the second of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UWM linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in 1990. It focuses on the evolution of grammatical form and meaning from lexical material, which has reinvigorated historical analysis and theory and led to advances in the understanding of the relation between diachrony and universals. The richness and potential of some of the leading approaches to grammaticalization are here illustrated in thirteen selected papers.

Grammaticalization

Grammaticalization
Author: Ekaterini Stathi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2010-09-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027288003

This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization research such as the concept of 'grammar' as the endpoint of grammaticalization processes, erosion, (uni)directionality, the relation between grammaticalization and constructions, subjectification, and the relation between grammaticalization and analogy. Other papers shed a critical light on grammaticalization as an explanatory parameter in language change. New case studies of micro-processes of grammaticalization complete the selection. The empirical evidence for (and against) grammaticalization comes from diverse domains: subject control, clitics, reciprocal markers, pronouns and agreement markers, gender markers, auxiliaries, aspectual categories, intensifying adjectives and determiners, and pragmatic markers. The languages covered include English and its varieties, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, French, Slavonic languages, and Turkish. The book will be valuable to scholars working on grammaticalization and language change as well as to those interested in individual languages.

Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective

Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective
Author: Heiko Narrog
Publisher:
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2018
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 019879584X

This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes converge and differ across languages and language areas. Chapters systemically explore these processes languages of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, and in creole languages, revealing a number of unique pathways as well as shared features.

Approaches to Grammaticalization

Approaches to Grammaticalization
Author: Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 373
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027228957

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development, and organization of grammatical categories in a number of language world-wide, with particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues. The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.

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 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.

Grammaticalization and Variation

Grammaticalization and Variation
Author: Nicole Hober
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2021-11-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110728613

'Studia typologica' ist der Titel der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift 'Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung/Language Typology and Universals (STUF)'. In den 'Studia typologica' werden Beiträge veröffentlicht, die vielversprechende neue Themen im Bereich der allgemein-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft ansprechen. Insbesondere empirisch gut fundierte Beiträge mit crosslinguistischer Orientierung, die neue Problemstellungen auf innovative Art präsentieren, sind in den 'Studia typologica' willkommen. Die Beiheftereihe unterstützt nachdrücklich Studien zu weniger gut erforschten Sprachen und/oder Phänomenen. Von großem Interesse für die 'Studia typologica' sind auch areal-typologische Arbeiten sowie Beiträge, die sich dem Zusammenspiel von Sprachkontakt und Sprachtypologie widmen. Die 'Studia typologica' sind theorie- und modellübergreifend als Forum für typologisch ausgerichtete Forschungsarbeiten gedacht. Die Beihefte umfassen sowohl Monographien als auch thematisch homogene Sammelbände. Alle eingehenden Manuskripte werden begutachtet (double blind). Die Publikationssprache ist Englisch.

The Grammaticalization of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality

The Grammaticalization of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality
Author: Kees Hengeveld
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2017-09-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110517426

This book brings together a series of contributions to the study of grammaticalization of tense, aspect, and modality from a functional perspective. All contributions share the aim to uncover the functional motivations behind the processes of grammaticalization under discussion, but they do so from different points of view.

Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English

Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English
Author: Hans Lindquist
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588115232

Grammaticalization is an important concept in general and typological linguistics and a prominent type of explanation in historical linguistics. For historical corpus linguists, grammaticalization theory provides a frame of orientation in their effort to analyze and systematize a fast-accumulating mass of data. Students of grammaticalization have become increasingly aware of the potential of existing corpora and established corpus-linguistic methodology for their work. This book continues and develops the dialogue between the two fields. All the contributions are based on extensive use of various electronic corpora. Relating corpus practices to recent theoretical concerns of grammaticalization studies they deal with grammaticalization and historical sociolinguistics, lexicalization and grammaticalization, layering, frequency, grammaticalization and dialects, degrammaticalization and grammaticalization in a contrastive perspective. The papers show that a synthesis of corpus methodology and grammaticalization studies leads to new and interesting insights about the mechanisms of language change and the communicative functions of language.

What makes Grammaticalization?

What makes Grammaticalization?
Author: Walter Bisang
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2009-02-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110197448

The status of grammaticalization has been the subject of many controversial discussions. The contributions to What makes Grammaticalization? approach the prevalent phenomenon from the angle of language structure and focus on the interrelation between the levels of phonology, pragmatics (inference), discourse and the lexicon and some of them try to integrate the areal perspective. A wealth of data from Slavonic languages as well as from languages of other genetic and areal affiliation is discussed. The book is of interest to linguists specializing in grammaticalization, lexicalization and morphological typology, to language typologists as well as to functional, historical and cognitive linguists.