A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization: Volume 2: Formal Change: 20 (Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics) - Hardcover

Giomi, Riccardo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004520457 ISBN 13: 9789004520455

Publisher: Brill, 2023

Synopsis

In this volume, long-standing assumptions about the formal changes involved in grammaticalization are evaluated in the light of the striking diversity of human languages. To this end, the traditional notions of morphological coalescence, syntactic fixation and phonological erosion are reassessed with regard to their relationship with the diachronic changes affecting the function of the construction and with larger-scale typological changes that affect the language as a whole (especially, shifts in morphological type and word-order patterns). The author reaches the conclusion that suprasegmental phonological erosion and syntactic fixation (redefined in a template-based framework) are direct consequences of functional change and are therefore significant indicators of grammaticalization, whereas coalescence and segmental erosion are independently motivated by psycholinguistic, rather than strictly grammatical factors.

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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: 9004520457
• ISBN 13: 9789004520455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252