Thoughts on grammaticalization / Christian Lehmann.
After a short review of the history of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ordered by grammatical domains such as the verbal, pronominal and nominal sph...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Germany :
Language Science Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | 3rd edition 2015. |
| Series: | Classics in linguistics (Berlin, Germany) ;
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | After a short review of the history of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ordered by grammatical domains such as the verbal, pronominal and nominal sphere and clause level relations. The final chapter presents a theory of grammaticalization which is based on the autonomy of the linguistic sign with respect to the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes. This is the basis of the structural parameters that constitute grammaticalization. They are operationalized to the point of rendering degrees of grammaticalization measurable. |
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| Item Description: | Includes prefaces for 1982 working paper and 1995/2002 editions. First edition published in 1995 ; second edition published in 2002. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783946234067 3946234062 |