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New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change
The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models, such as constructionalization, the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers, and reveal a renewed interest in the typological application of grammaticalization and in the cognitive motivations for unidirectionality. The contributors consider data from a wide range of languages, including several that have not or marginally been looked at in terms of grammaticalization: Chinese, Dutch, (varieties of) English, French, German, Japanese, Maltese, Old Saxon, Spanish, and languages of the South Caucasian and Zhuang Tai-Kadai families. The chapters range from theoretical discussions to fine-grained analyses of new historical and comparative language data. This volume will be of interest to linguists studying morphosyntactic changes in a range of languages, and in particular to those interested in models for grammatical change.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 202] 2018. vi, 433 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 November 2018
Published online on 28 November 2018
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Grammaticalization in the 2010s – A dialogue between the old and the newTine Breban and Sylvie Hancil | pp. 1–20
- Part 1. General issues
- Are there two different ways of approaching grammaticalization?Bernd Heine | pp. 23–54
- Functional similarity despite geographical distance: On the grammaticalization of German mal and Chinese yíxiàEkkehard König and Jingying Li | pp. 55–74
- Analogy: Its role in language learning, categorization, and in models of language change such as grammaticalization and constructionalizationOlga Fischer | pp. 75–104
- Central Southern Guangxi as a grammaticalization areaYang Huang and Fuxiang Wu | pp. 105–134
- Grammaticalizing connectives in English and discourse information structureDiana M. Lewis | pp. 135–157
- Part 2. Case studies
- The noun phrase
- The grammaticalization of interrogative pronouns into relative pronouns in South-Caucasian languages: Internal development or replica?Ophelie Gandon | pp. 163–182
- The verbal phrase
- From time to surprise: The case of será posible in SpanishSusana Rodríguez Rosique | pp. 185–206
- C-gravitation and the grammaticalization degree of “present progressives” in English, French, and DutchNaoaki Wada | pp. 207–230
- The avertive and proximative grams in Maltese using the auxiliary għoddMaris Camilleri | pp. 231–256
- Discourse markers
- Pragmatic uses of nu in Old Saxon and Old EnglishElise Louviot | pp. 259–290
- (Inter)subjectification and paradigmaticization: The case study of the final particle butSylvie Hancil | pp. 291–314
- The development of three classifiers into degree modifier constructions in ChineseYueh Hsin Kuo | pp. 315–331
- From the inside to the outside of the sentence: Forming a larger discourse unit with jijitsu ‘fact’ in JapaneseReijirou Shibasaki | pp. 333–360
- The development of the Chinese scalar additive coordinators derived from prohibitives: A constructionist perspectiveBing Zhu and Kaoru Horie | pp. 361–380
- Cross-varietal diversity in constructional entrenchment: The final-tag construction in Irish and American EnglishMitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu | pp. 381–430
- Index
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