Shared Grammaticalization

Shared Grammaticalization
Author: Martine Robbeets
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902727214X

This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid to other factors that may give rise to shared grammaticalization. This book intends to put this situation right by approaching shared grammaticalization from an integrated perspective, including areal as well as genealogical and universal motivations and by searching for ways to distinguish between these factors. The volume offers a wealth of empirical facts, presented by internationally renowned specialists, on the Transeurasian languages (i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic) — the languages in focus —as well as on various other languages. Shared Grammaticalization will appeal to scholars and advanced students concerned with linguistic reconstruction, language contact and linguistic typology, and to anyone interested in grammaticalization theory.

Diachrony of Verb Morphology

Diachrony of Verb Morphology
Author: Martine Robbeets
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110400111

This book deals with shared verb morphology in Japanese and other languages that have been identified as Transeurasian (traditionally: “Altaic”) in previous research. It analyzes shared etymologies and reconstructed grammaticalizations with the goal to provide evidence for the genealogical relatedness of these languages.

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.

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.

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.

Borrowed Morphology

Borrowed Morphology
Author: Francesco Gardani
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2014-12-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501500376

By integrating novel developments in both contact linguistics and morphological theory, this volume pursues the topic of borrowed morphology by recourse to sophisticated theoretical and methodological accounts. The authors address fundamental issues, such as the alleged universal dispreference for morphological borrowing and its effects on morphosyntactic complexity, and corroborate their analyses with strong cross-linguistic evidence.

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.

Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific

Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific
Author: Walter Bisang
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 511
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110712733

This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.

Grammaticalization

Grammaticalization
Author: Heiko Narrog
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2021
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198747853

This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization - the development of new grammatical forms from lexical items, and of further grammatical functions from existing grammatical forms. The chapters provide a detailed account of the major issues in the field, as well as offering guidance on further reading and study questions to encourage further discussions; there is also a glossary of key terminology.

Reconstructing Grammar

Reconstructing Grammar
Author: Spike Gildea
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2000-07-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027298564

Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while grammaticalization theoreticians have either focused on explaining attested historical change or used internal reconstruction to formulate hypotheses about processes of change. In this collection, some of the leading voices in grammaticalization theory apply their methods to comparative data (largely drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas), showing not only that grammar can be reconstructed, but that the process of reconstructing grammar can yield interesting theoretical and typological insights.