Grammaticalization and copying of grammatical elements: Chapter 5. Isomorphic processes

Johanson, Lars

doi:10.1075/slcs.132.10joh

In:Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages
Edited by Martine Robbeets and Hubert Cuyckens
[Studies in Language Companion Series 132] 2013
► pp. 101–110

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Chapter 5. Isomorphic processes

Grammaticalization and copying of grammatical elements

Lars Johanson | Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz

Published online: 28 February 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.132.10joh

The paper outlines the main principles of grammaticalization, the Code-Copying Model, and the emergence of isomorphic structures in language contact. It offers a number of examples of code-copying and grammaticalization, and a summary of the author’s approach to contact-induced change and grammaticalization. In particular, it argues that grammaticalization – in the usual sense of a process by which lexical items lose some or all of their lexical meaning and become grammatical markers – cannot be shared by codes as a result of code-copying. At the same time, it contends that shared grammaticalization in the sense of a parallel development of elements is clearly possible.

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