World Lexicon of Grammaticalization

Heiko Narrog, Bernd Heine, Bo Hong, Seongha Rhee, Tania Kouteva, Haiping Long

ISBN 10: 1316501760 / ISBN 13: 9781316501764

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, GB, 2019

Extensively revised and updated, this second edition provides, in an A-Z format, an analysis of the most important generalizations that have been made on the unidirectional change of grammatical forms and constructions. Based on the analysis of more than 1,000 languages, it reconstructs over 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world, including East Asian languages such as Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Readers are provided with the tools to discover how lexical and grammatical meanings can be related to one another in a principled way, how such issues as polysemy, heterosemy, and transcategoriality are dealt with, and why certain linguistic forms have simultaneous lexical and grammatical functions. Definitions of lexical concepts are provided with examples from a broad variety of languages, and references to key relevant research literature. Linguists and other scholars will gain a better understanding of languages on a worldwide scale. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781316501764

Inhaltsangabe:

Based on analysis of more than 1,000 languages, this volume reconstructs more than 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Tania Kuteva is a Full Professor of English Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany and Professorial Research Associate of School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: World Lexicon of Grammaticalization
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, GB
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: New
Auflage: 2. Auflage