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Approaches to Grammaticalization
Volume II. Types of grammatical markers
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, 19:2] 1991. xii, 558 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 3 October 2011
Published online on 3 October 2011
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Table of Contents
- Foreword | pp. xi–xii
- IntroductionElizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine | p. 1
- I. Verbal structure
- Back to the futureJoan L. Bybee, William Pagliuca and Revere D. Perkins | p. 17
- The emergence of perfective aspect in Indo-Aryan languagesPeter Edwin Hook | p. 59
- II. Argument structure
- Grammaticization of topic into subjectMasayoshi Shibatani | p. 93
- From V/2 to subject clitics: evidence from Northern ItalianJohn Haiman | p. 135
- The role of motivation in the emergence of grammatical categories: the grammaticization of subjectsMarianne Mithun | p. 159
- Verbs to promotional suffixes in Sahaptian and klamathNoel Rude | p. 185
- Grammaticalization of postpositions and word order in Senufo languagesRobert Carlson | p. 201
- III. Subordination
- From postposition to subordinator in NewariCarol Genetti | p. 227
- The evolution of dependent clause morpho-syntax in Biblical HebrewT. Givón | p. 257
- IV. Modality
- A quantitative perspective on the gramaticization of epistemic parentheticals in EnglishSandra A. Thompson and Anthony Mulac | p. 313
- The grammaticization of the German modal particlesWerner Abraham | p. 331
- V. Spectra of grammaticalization patterns
- Areal and universal dimensions of grammatization in LahuJames A. Matisoff | p. 383
- Ways to go in Rama: a case study in polygrammaticalizationColette G. Craig | p. 455
- Grammaticalization and related changes in contemporary GermanChristian Lehmann | p. 493
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