Approaches to Grammaticalization Vol. 1Volume I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues |
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Editor:
| Traugott, Elizabeth Closs Heine, Bernd |
Series title: | Typological Studies in Language Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-55619-400-9 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1991 |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $224.00 |
Book Description:
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The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the...
More DescriptionThe study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development, and organization of grammatical categories in a number of language world-wide, with particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues.
The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.