Different slants on grammaticalization
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Different slants on grammaticalization
（Studies in language companion series / series editors, Werner Abraham, Michael Noonan, v. 232）
J. Benjamins, c2023
- : HB
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb : On the contact-induced (de)grammaticalization of yori in modern through present-day Japanese / Reijirou Shibasaki
- From fear to reason : Grammaticalization as dependency vs expansion of the Mandarin apprehensive 怕 pà / Vittorio Tantucci & Aiqing Wang
- -maɾa in Mara : On the ongoing grammaticalization(s) of a Bantu ‘finish' verb / Rasmus Bernander ... [et al.]
- Tracking Jespersen's cycle in Veronese and Bresciano : Diatopic variation in sentential negation / Marta Tagliani & Jelena Živojinović
- Could be, might be, maybe : Mechanisms of grammaticalization in synchronic use and perception / David Lorenz
- The final-appendage construction in Japanese and Korean : To what extent is post-predicative position exploited in the two East Asian languages? / Mitsuko Narita Izutsu, Katsunobu Izutsu & Yong-Taek Kim
- New perspectives on phonological erosion as an aspect of grammaticalization / Charles Elerick
- On the development of discourse markers from elliptical structures / Seongha Rhee
- On the grammaticalization of ideophones / Alexander Andrason & Bernd Heine
- An emerging final particle : The case of quoi ‘what' in French / Sylvie Hancil
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of grammars. In this volume, grammaticalization is dealt with diachronically, synchronically and as a by-product of dialogic interaction. Another key feature of this book is language diversity; as it includes studies on language families ranging from Niger-Congo, Koreanic, Japonic, Sino-Tibetan to Germanic and Romance. The novel aspects of grammaticalization addressed are new slants on the fundamental debate about grammaticalization as expansion vs reduction; the grammatical formation of ideophones; the semantic domain of fear as a source and a trigger of grammatical change, and many other aspects of semantic and morphosyntactic development.
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