Jens Nørgård-Sørensen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jens Nørgård-Sørensen is involved.

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Connecting Grammaticalisation

Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft and Lene Schøsler

This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word… read more

[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 65] 2011. xiii, 347 pp. | open access

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Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens and Lars Heltoft 2015 Grammaticalisation as paradigmatisation New Directions in Grammaticalization Research, Smith, Andrew D.M., Graeme Trousdale and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 261–292 | Article

By arguing that grammaticalisation inevitably involves paradigmatisation, i.e. formation of new paradigms or reformation of existing paradigms, we challenge leading approaches to grammaticalisation that consider the stages on the so-called cline of grammaticality the prototypical path of… read more

Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens 2014 Filling empty distinctions of expression with content: Usage-motivated assignment of grammatical meaning Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change, Coussé, Evie and Ferdinand von Mengden (eds.), pp. 243–270 | Article

This article opens with a brief discussion of the fundamental issues of usage, structure, grammaticalization and reanalysis and then introduces the key concept of an empty distinction, which is defined as a conventionalized distinction of expression that has lost its former motivation (semantic or… read more

Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens 2013 Review of Narrog & Heine (2011): The Oxford handbook of grammaticalization Studies in Language 37:1, pp. 217–225 | Review

Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens 2011 Chapter 5 Patterns of connecting grammaticalisation in Russian: Syntax, animacy and aspect Connecting Grammaticalisation, Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens, Lars Heltoft and Lene Schøsler, pp. 115–170 | Article

Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens 2008 Grammaticalization waves: The Russian subjunctive mood and person/number marking Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization, Seoane, Elena and María José López-Couso (eds.), pp. 253–268 | Article

Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens 2006 Aspect and animacy in the history of Russian: Developing the idea of parallel grammaticalization Competing Models of Linguistic Change: Evolution and beyond, Nedergaard Thomsen, Ole (ed.), pp. 289–305 | Article