Grammaticalization and Language Change: New reflections: 130 (Studies in Language Companion Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027205973 ISBN 13: 9789027205971

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2012

Synopsis

This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features, and outcomes of these changes. New theoretical reflections are offered on the pragmatic motivation of grammaticalization paths, process-oriented differences between grammaticalization, lexicalization and degrammaticalization, the question of gradualness and pace of grammaticalization, and deictics as a distinct source of grammaticalization. The articles describe various constructional and distributional changes affecting deictics, determiners, reflexives, clitics, nouns, affixes, adverbs and (auxiliary) verbs, mainly in the Germanic and Romance languages. The volume will be of great interest to historical linguists working on grammaticalization and related changes, and to all linguists working on the interface between morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027205973
• ISBN 13: 9789027205971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Davidse Kristin, Breban Tine, Brems Lieselotte, Mortelmans Tanja