Different Slants on Grammaticalization
Edited by Sylvie Hancil and Vittorio Tantucci
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 232] 2023. vi, 280 pp. + index
Vittorio Tantucci
List of John Benjamins publications for which Vittorio Tantucci plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
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2023. Chapter 2. From fear to reason: Grammaticalization as dependency vs expansion of the Mandarin apprehensive 怕 pà. Different Slants on Grammaticalization, Hancil, Sylvie and Vittorio Tantucci (eds.), pp. 50–73
In this study we support the view that grammaticalization can unfold both in the form of increased dependency and increased expansion (cf. Traugott & Trousdale 2013), even when originating from the same original lexeme. We provide the case study of the Mandarin apprehensive verb 怕
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2023. Introduction. Different Slants on Grammaticalization, Hancil, Sylvie and Vittorio Tantucci (eds.), pp. 1–18
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2021. Politeness reciprocity in Shakespeare’s dialogue: The case of thanks. Historical Pragmatics today: Articles in honour of Andreas H. Jucker, Taavitsainen, Irma and Jonathan Culpeper (eds.), pp. 202–224
Recently, it has been proposed that (im)politeness in interaction today is governed in large part by a Principle of (Im)politeness Reciprocity (Culpeper and Tantucci 2021). This paper investigates whether politeness reciprocity works similarly in early modern English – specifically, in the plays… read more | Article
2015. Traversativity and grammaticalization: The aktionsart of 过 guo as a lexical source of evidentiality. Chinese Language and Discourse 6:1, pp. 57–100
This paper discusses the new aktionsart of traversativity, here defined as the category marking the phase of ‘getting-through’ an event or a situation. Different from completives and resultatives (cf. Bybee et al. 1994), traversatives do not profile a phasal contiguity with the telos of a… read more | Article