New Reflections on Grammaticalization: 49 (Typological Studies in Language) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 9027229554 ISBN 13: 9789027229557

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2002

Synopsis

The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direction of grammaticalization studies. The volume focuses on issues such as grammaticalization and lexicalization; the unidirectionality hypothesis; the issue of the relevance of contexts for grammaticalization; the description of grammaticalization paths. Much of the current work concentrates on such categories, as discourse markers, honorifics or classifiers, which have not previously been central to works on grammaticalization. Other studies take a new perspective on known grammaticalization paths by applying concepts adopted from other linguistic fields, such as prototype theory, morphocentricity, or by discussing their findings from a comparative or typological angle, presenting data from a large number of languages, often based on extensive empirical investigations of written and spoken text corpora.

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Synopsis

Grammaticalization refers to the degree of grammatical function a linguistic item has on a scale between purely lexical and purely grammatical meaning. This volume contains papers from the International Symposium "New Reflections on Grammaticalization".

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027229554
• ISBN 13: 9789027229557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 449
• Editor: Wischer Ilse, Diewald Gabriele