Grammaticalization
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Grammaticalization
(Cambridge textbooks in linguistics)
Cambridge University Press, 1993
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Note
Bibliography: p. 226-245
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first general introduction to grammaticalization, the processes whereby ordinary lexical items, such as nouns and verbs, change over time into grammatical elements such as case markers, sentence connectives and auxiliaries, and whereby grammatical elements in general come into being and decay. The authors synthesize work from several areas of linguistics, including historical linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics. Data are drawn from many languages, including Ewe, Finnish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Malay, and especially English.
Table of Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1. Some preliminaries
- 2. The history of grammaticalization
- 3. Mechanisms: reanalysis and analogy
- 4. Pragmatic inferencing
- 5. The hypothesis of unidirectionality
- 6. Clause-internal morphological changes
- 7. Grammaticalization across clauses
- 8. Some further issues
- Notes
- References
- Indexes.
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