Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English (Studies in Language Companion Series, Band 53) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027230560 ISBN 13: 9789027230560

Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one of the best-documented languages in the world, English. Pathways of Change contains discussion of new data and provides theoretical lead articles based on these data that will help sharpen the theoretical aspects involved, such as the definition and the logical connection of the component processes of grammaticalization. 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 with these two factors the possibility of degrammaticalization ― the way iconicity interweaves with grammaticalization processes, and with the phenomenon of grammaticalization on a synchronic or discourse level, also often termed subjectifization.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9027230560
• ISBN 13: 9789027230560
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 401
• Herausgeber: Fischer Olga, Rosenbach Anette, Stein Dieter
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