Approaches to Grammaticalization

Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues

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Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Bernd Heine

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The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.

This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development, and organization of grammatical categories in a number of language world-wide, with particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues.

The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.

[Typological Studies in Language, 19:1] 1991. xii, 360 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.19.1

Table of Contents

Foreword | pp. xi–xii

Introduction

Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine | p. 1

I. General Method

On some principles of grammaticization

Paul J. Hopper | p. 17

On the gradualness of grammaticalization

Frank Lichtenberk | p. 37

Serial verbs and the mental reality of ‘event’: Grammatical vs. cognitive packaging

T. Givón | p. 81

Grammaticalization as retextualization

Johanna Nichols and Alan Timberlake | p. 129

II. Directionality

From cognition to grammar: Evidence from African languages

Bernd Heine, Ulrike Claudi and Friederike Hünnemeyer | p. 149

The semantics-pragmatics of grammaticalization revisited

Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Ekkehard König | p. 189

The de dicto domain in language

Zygmunt Frajzyngier | p. 219

The grammaticallization of rhetorical questions in Tamil

Susan C. Herring | p. 253

Some grammaticalization changes in Estonian and their implications

Lyle Campbell | p. 285

The last stages of grammatical elements; contractive and expansive desemanticization

Joseph H. Greenberg | p. 301

Substrates, calquing and grammaticalization in Melanesian pidgin

Roger M. Keesing | p. 315

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