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Studies on Grammaticalization / ed. by Johannes Helmbrecht, Stavros Skopeteas, Yong-Min Shin, Yoko Nishina, Elisabeth Verhoeven.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 205Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110205824
  • 9783110211764
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415
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  • P299.G73 S78 2008eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Glosses -- Introduction -- I. Directionality of grammaticalization -- processes -- Unidirectionality of grammaticalization in an -- evolutionary perspective -- Grammaticalization and sets of form-functionpairs: -- Encoding spatial concepts in Greek -- II. Nominal categories and adpositions -- Grammaticalization of Korean numeral -- classifiers -- Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in -- Nànáfwê -- On the grammaticalization of the German preposition -- von as a genitive equivalent -- III. Verbal categories -- The grammaticalization of agreement in -- Chibchan -- Decay and loss of applicatives in Siouan languages: -- A grammaticalization perspective -- Reciprocals in the making: multiple -- grammaticalization in Manambu -- The Maltese continuative: A grammaticalization -- borderliner -- What do “do” verbs do? The semantic diversity of -- generalised action verbs -- Predicting a future change: Relative clauses of -- Japanese -- IV. Grammaticalization and constructions -- The catalytic function of constructional -- restrictions in grammaticalization -- Grammaticalization of periphrastic -- constructions -- Grammaticalization in constructions: Clitic -- doubling with experiencers in Modern Greek -- Grammaticalization of honorific constructions in -- Japanese -- From cause to contrast: A study in semantic -- change -- Backmatter
Summary: Grammaticalization theory has played a major role in the developments in language typology and functional linguistics during the last three decades. Grammaticalization phenomena show that grammars evolve in a continuous way following cross-linguistically established diachronic paths. The contributions in this book shed new light on some central issues in grammaticalization theory such as the (uni-)directionality debate, the relation between grammaticalization and constructions, and the concept of multiple grammaticalization. Evidence for grammaticalization in several domains of grammar is presented: adpositions, numeral classifiers, honorifics, agreement markers, applicatives, reciprocals, delexical verbs, auxiliaries, relative clauses, and discourse particles. The empirical investigations come from several languages, among them many understudied languages such as Nanafwe, Maltese, Manambu, Chibchan and Siouan languages.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Glosses -- Introduction -- I. Directionality of grammaticalization -- processes -- Unidirectionality of grammaticalization in an -- evolutionary perspective -- Grammaticalization and sets of form-functionpairs: -- Encoding spatial concepts in Greek -- II. Nominal categories and adpositions -- Grammaticalization of Korean numeral -- classifiers -- Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in -- Nànáfwê -- On the grammaticalization of the German preposition -- von as a genitive equivalent -- III. Verbal categories -- The grammaticalization of agreement in -- Chibchan -- Decay and loss of applicatives in Siouan languages: -- A grammaticalization perspective -- Reciprocals in the making: multiple -- grammaticalization in Manambu -- The Maltese continuative: A grammaticalization -- borderliner -- What do “do” verbs do? The semantic diversity of -- generalised action verbs -- Predicting a future change: Relative clauses of -- Japanese -- IV. Grammaticalization and constructions -- The catalytic function of constructional -- restrictions in grammaticalization -- Grammaticalization of periphrastic -- constructions -- Grammaticalization in constructions: Clitic -- doubling with experiencers in Modern Greek -- Grammaticalization of honorific constructions in -- Japanese -- From cause to contrast: A study in semantic -- change -- Backmatter

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Grammaticalization theory has played a major role in the developments in language typology and functional linguistics during the last three decades. Grammaticalization phenomena show that grammars evolve in a continuous way following cross-linguistically established diachronic paths. The contributions in this book shed new light on some central issues in grammaticalization theory such as the (uni-)directionality debate, the relation between grammaticalization and constructions, and the concept of multiple grammaticalization. Evidence for grammaticalization in several domains of grammar is presented: adpositions, numeral classifiers, honorifics, agreement markers, applicatives, reciprocals, delexical verbs, auxiliaries, relative clauses, and discourse particles. The empirical investigations come from several languages, among them many understudied languages such as Nanafwe, Maltese, Manambu, Chibchan and Siouan languages.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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