A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization: Volume 1: Functional Change: 19 (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics, 19) - Hardcover

Giomi, Riccardo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004520449 ISBN 13: 9789004520448

Publisher: Brill, 2023

Synopsis

Meaning change in grammaticalization has been variously described in terms of decreasing semantic weight and increasing generality, abstraction, (inter)subjectivity or discourse orientation. The author shows that all these trends are subsumed by the notion of scope increase along a precise hierarchy of semantic and pragmatic layers of grammatical organization such as endorsed by Functional Discourse Grammar. The scope-increase hypothesis is immune from the exceptions and veritable counterexamples to all the aforementioned generalizations and has the decisive advantage of being more objectively measurable, given its direct bearing on actual linguistic structure. The extremely rare exceptions to this generalization are also addressed and found to always result from a type of change independent from grammaticalization – the merger of two separate speech acts.

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About the Author

Riccardo Giomi, Ph.D. (2020), University of Lisbon, is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Liège. He has authored several publications on Functional Discourse Grammar, among which Headedness and modification in Functional Discourse Grammar (Glossa 5.1, 2020) and The place of interpersonal lexemes in linguistic theory, with special reference to Functional Discourse Grammar (Corpus Pragmatics 5.2, 2021).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004520449
• ISBN 13: 9789004520448
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448