Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers offers a comprehensive account of the most promising new directions in the vast field of grammaticalization studies. From major theoretical issues to hardly addressed experimental questions, this volume explores new ways to expand, refine or even chall
New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change
β Scribed by Sylvie Hancil, Tine Breban, JosΓ© Antonio Vicente Lozano
- Publisher
- John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 441
- Series
- Studies in Language Companion Series, 202
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Introduction: grammaticalization in the 2010s: a dialogue between the old and the new / Tine Breban and Sylvie Hancil --
Are there two different ways of approaching grammaticalization? / Bernd Heine --
Functional similarity despite geographical distance: On the grammaticalization of German mal and Chinese yixiaΜ / Ekkehard Koenig and Jingying Li --
Analogy: Its role in language learning, categorization, and in models of language change such as grammaticalization and constructionalization / Olga Fischer --
Central Southern Guangxi as a grammaticalization area / Yang Huang and Fuxiang Wu --
Grammaticalizing connectives in English and discourse information structure / Diana M. Lewis --
The grammaticalization of interrogative pronouns into relative pronouns in South-Caucasian languages: Internal development or replica? / Ophelie Gandon --
From time to surprise: The case of seraΜ posible in Spanish / Susana Rodriguez Rosique --
C-gravitation and the grammaticalization degree of 'present progressives' in English, French, and Dutch / Naoaki Wada --
The avertive and proximative grams in Maltese using the auxiliary ghodd / Maris Camilleri --
Pragmatic uses of Nu in old Saxon and old English / Elise Louviot --
(Inter)subjectification and paradigmaticization: The case study of the final particle but / Sylvie Hancil --
The development of three classifiers into degree modifier constructions in Chinese / Yueh Hsin Kuo --
From the inside to the outside of the sentence: forming a larger discourse unit with jijitsu 'fact' in japanese / Reijirou Shibasaki --
The development of the Chinese scalar additive coordinators derived from prohibitives, a constructionist perspective / Bing Zhu and Kaoru Horie --
Cross-varietal diversity in constructional entrenchment: The final-tag construction in Irish and American English / Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu.
β¦ Subjects
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization;Linguistic change;Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization -- Case studies;Linguistic change -- Case studies;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General
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