Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization: 90 (Typological Studies in Language) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027206716 ISBN 13: 9789027206718

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2010

Synopsis

This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, contains a collection of papers which investigate the relationship between synchronic gradience and the apparent gradualness of linguistic change, largely from the perspective of grammaticalization. In addition to versions of the papers presented at the workshop, the volume contains specially commissioned contributions, some of which offer commentaries on a subset of the other articles. The articles address a number of themes central to grammaticalization studies, such as the role of reanalysis and analogy in grammaticalization, the formal modelling of grammaticalization, and the relationship between formal and functional change, using data from a range of languages, and (in some cases) from particular electronic corpora. The volume will be of specific interest to historical linguists working on grammaticalization, and general linguists working on the interface between synchrony and diachrony.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027206716
• ISBN 13: 9789027206718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Traugott Elizabeth Closs, Trousdale Graeme