Different Slants on Grammaticalization: 232 (Studies in Language Companion Series) - Hardcover

9789027213754: Different Slants on Grammaticalization: 232 (Studies in Language Companion Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027213755 ISBN 13: 9789027213754

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2023

This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of grammars. In this volume, grammaticalization is dealt with diachronically, synchronically and as a by-product of dialogic interaction. Another key feature of this book is language diversity; as it includes studies on language families ranging from Niger-Congo, Koreanic, Japonic, Sino-Tibetan to Germanic and Romance. The novel aspects of grammaticalization addressed are new slants on the fundamental debate about grammaticalization as expansion vs reduction; the grammatical formation of ideophones; the semantic domain of fear as a source and a trigger of grammatical change, and many other aspects of semantic and morphosyntactic development.

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