How do they intersect?: Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs; Trousdale, Graeme

doi:10.1075/tsl.90.04tra

In:Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale
[Typological Studies in Language 90] 2010
► pp. 19–44

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Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization

How do they intersect?

Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Graeme Trousdale

Published online: 24 February 2010

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.90.04tra

This volume is intended to address three questions: (1) How are we to understand the intersection between synchronic gradience and grammaticalization? (2) What insights does grammaticalization offer for assessing the validity of Aarts’s (2007a) claims regarding synchronic gradience, specifically that there is a significant distinction between subsective and intersective gradience? (3) What does the intersection between grammaticalization and synchronic gradience tell us about the hypothesis of structural gradualness, and about whether work on grammaticalization needs reanalysis and analogy/extension, or some other mechanism? In this paper we present an overview of what we consider to be central issues in answering these questions and in developing a theory of micro-changes.

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