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Perspectives on Grammaticalization: 109 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

 
9789027236128: Perspectives on Grammaticalization: 109 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)

Synopsis

This is the second of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UWM linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in 1990. It focuses on the evolution of grammatical form and meaning from lexical material, which has reinvigorated historical analysis and theory and led to advances in the understanding of the relation between diachrony and universals. The richness and potential of some of the leading approaches to grammaticalization are here illustrated in thirteen selected papers.

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Synopsis

The recent resurgence of interest in the evolution of grammatical form and meaning from lexical material has reinvigorated historical analysis and theory and led to advances in the understanding of the relation between diachrony and universals. Some of the leading approaches to grammaticalization are illustrated here in 13 selected papers from a symposium held at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in April 1990. This is the second of two volumes deriving from the same symposium. The first volume, "Explanation in Historical Linguistics" is also published by John Bemjamins.

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