TY - BOOK AU - Bisang,Walter AU - Dong,Xiufang AU - Dubenion-Smith,Shannon AU - He,Yancheng AU - Koenig,Ekkehard AU - Lamarre,Christine AU - Meisterernst,Barbara AU - Peyraube,Alain AU - Schuessler,Axel AU - Sun,Chaofen AU - Takashima,Ken-ichi AU - Vajda,Edward AU - Wiebusch,Thekla AU - Wu,Fuxiang AU - Zhiqun Xing,Janet TI - A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization: East Meets West T2 - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , SN - 9783110637229 U1 - 410 PY - 2020///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Grammaticalization KW - Lexical grammar KW - Typology (Linguistics) KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Chinese KW - Linguistic Typology N1 - Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Contents --; Contributors --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part I: Grammaticalization --; Grammaticalization in Chinese – A cross-linguistic perspective --; Establishing transphrastic relations: On the grammaticalization of demonstratives --; From denotation to description: Noun-adjective and verb-adjective polysemy in Chinese --; New insights on the historical evolution of differential object marking (DOM) in Chinese --; An associated motion approach to northern Mandarin motion-cum-purpose patterns --; Semantic extension in Old Chinese: Direction, transitivity, and voice --; A new approach to the development of deontic markers: In Pre-Modern Chinese --; A typology of non-clausal postpositioning in German dialects --; Part II: Lexicalization --; Ket polysynthesis, grammaticalization, and lexicalization --; A lexical category in Shāng Chinese: Vcontrollable vs. Vuncontrollable --; Non-specific degree: Chinese gradable adjectives --; Compounding word-formation in Ahou Gelao --; Subject Index --; Language Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Based on comparative analyses of diachronic data, the articles in this volume address both theoretical and methodological issues in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in both Eastern and Western languages. The central question raised and discussed in this volume is how, if any, typological properties of the two genetically unrelated language families interact with the processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110641288 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110641288 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110641288/original ER -