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Shared Grammaticalization
With special focus on the Transeurasian languages
This book offers fresh perspectives on “shared grammaticalization”, a state whereby two or more languages have the source and the target of a grammaticalization process in common. While contact-induced grammaticalization has generated great interest in recent years, far less attention has been paid to other factors that may give rise to shared grammaticalization. This book intends to put this situation right by approaching shared grammaticalization from an integrated perspective, including areal as well as genealogical and universal motivations and by searching for ways to distinguish between these factors. The volume offers a wealth of empirical facts, presented by internationally renowned specialists, on the Transeurasian languages (i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic) — the languages in focus —as well as on various other languages. Shared Grammaticalization will appeal to scholars and advanced students concerned with linguistic reconstruction, language contact and linguistic typology, and to anyone interested in grammaticalization theory.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 132] 2013. xv, 360 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 March 2013
Published online on 8 March 2013
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- List of tables | pp. ix–x
- List of figures | pp. xi–xii
- List of contributors | pp. xiii–xiv
- Acknowledgements | pp. xv–xvi
- Chapter 1. Towards a typology of shared grammaticalizationMartine Robbeets and Hubert Cuyckens | pp. 1–20
- Part I. Shared grammaticalization: Typological and theoretical aspects
- Chapter 2. Areal diffusion and parallelism in drift: Shared grammaticalization patternsAlexandra Y. Aikhenvald | pp. 23–42
- Chapter 3. Demystifying drift: A variationist accountBrian D. Joseph | pp. 43–66
- Chapter 4. Contact-induced replication: Some diagnosticsBernd Heine and Motoki Nomachi | pp. 67–100
- Chapter 5. Isomorphic processes: Grammaticalization and copying of grammatical elementsLars Johanson | pp. 101–110
- Part II. Shared grammaticalization in the Transeurasian languages
- Chapter 6. Scalar additive operators in Transeurasian languages: A comparison with EuropeVolker Gast and Johan van der Auwera | pp. 113–146
- Chapter 7. Genealogically motivated grammaticalizationMartine Robbeets | pp. 147–176
- Chapter 8. Verbalization and insubordination in Siberian languagesAndrej L. Malchukov | pp. 177–208
- Part III. Shared grammaticalization in the Altaic languages
- Chapter 9. Personal pronouns in Core AltaicJuha A. Janhunen | pp. 211–226
- Chapter 10. Postposed indefinite articles in Mongolic and Turkic languages of the Qinghai-Gansu SprachbundHans Nugteren | pp. 227–250
- Chapter 11. Growing apart in shared grammaticalizationÉva Ágnes Csató | pp. 251–258
- Chapter 12. Incipient grammaticalization of a redundant purpose clause marker in Lamunxin Ėven: Contact-induced change or independent innovation?Brigitte Pakendorf | pp. 259–284
- Part IV. Shared grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean
- Chapter 13. Grammaticalization of space in Korean and JapaneseHeiko Narrog and Seongha Rhee | pp. 287–316
- Chapter 14. Grammaticalization of allocutivity markers in Japanese and Korean in a crosslinguistic perspectiveAnton Antonov | pp. 317–340
- Chapter 15. A possible grammaticalization in Old Japanese and its implications for the comparison of Korean and JapaneseJ. Marshall Unger | pp. 341–354
- Language index | pp. 355–358
- Subject index | pp. 359–360
“The volume stands out because of the vast amount of empirical data gathered and presented, not only from the Transeurasian languages, but from European and Amazonian languages as well. Additionally, many different linguistic areas are represented within the volume: morphology (articles, verbs, personal pronouns, allocutivity markers), lexicology (suffixes and prefixes), semantics (scalar additive operators), phonology (fricatives, voicing) and syntax (insubordination). [...]
The methodology and theoretical aspects brought into light are of great value for those researchers who wish to start or continue their own research in the field of grammaticalization, regardless of the languages or linguistic categories in question.”
The methodology and theoretical aspects brought into light are of great value for those researchers who wish to start or continue their own research in the field of grammaticalization, regardless of the languages or linguistic categories in question.”
Michaela Topor, University de Lleida, on Linguist List 24.3268, 2013
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