Grammaticalization And Pragmatics: Facts, Approaches, Theoretical Issues (Studies in Pragmatics): 5 - Hardcover

Corinne Rossari

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848551622 ISBN 13: 9781848551626

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009

Synopsis

The studies collected in this volume deal with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of complex syntactic structures in various languages (Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian and Spanish). They are set against the theoretical framework of grammaticalization. The main methodological tools are cross-linguistic contrastive analysis and diachronic perspective. The two main issues that emerge from these studies are the place of pragmatic factors in language change (input, output or setting/frame of the process) and the existence or otherwise of a prevailing mechanism for explaining change phenomena.

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1848551622
• ISBN 13: 9781848551626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Corinne Rossari, Claudia Ricci, Adriana Spiridon