A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization

Language: English

Published by Brill, NL, 2023

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Series: Book 17 of 25 - Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics

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Meaning change in grammaticalization has been variously described in terms of decreasing semantic weight and increasing generality, abstraction, (inter)subjectivity or discourse orientation. The author shows that all these trends are subsumed by the notion of scope increase along a precise hierarchy of semantic and pragmatic layers of grammatical organization such as endorsed by Functional Discourse Grammar. The scope-increase hypothesis is immune from the exceptions and veritable counterexamples to all the aforementioned generalizations and has the decisive advantage of being more objectively measurable, given its direct bearing on actual linguistic structure. The extremely rare exceptions to this generalization are also addressed and found to always result from a type of change independent from grammaticalization - the merger of two separate speech acts.

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Title
A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization
Author
Riccardo Giomi
Publisher
Brill, NL
Publication year
2023
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New
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Hardback
Language
English
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9004520449
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9789004520448
Item weight
870 grams
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15.5 x 3.3 x 23.5 cm
Series
Book 17 of 25: Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics

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