Grammaticalization: Current views and issues
Edited by Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 119] 2010. vii, 379 pp.
Elke Gehweiler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elke Gehweiler plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Morphology | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2010 The Grammaticalization of the German adjectives lauter (and eitel) Grammaticalization: Current views and issues, Stathi, Katerina, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König (eds.), pp. 297–322 | Article
After a corpus semantic analysis of the synchronic uses of the originally synonymous words lauter and eitel, this article traces the grammaticalization of German lauter (with reference to eitel) on the basis of three diachronic corpora. Lauter was originally a privative adjective meaning ‘pure,… read more
2010 Introduction Grammaticalization: Current views and issues, Stathi, Katerina, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
2008 From proper name to primary interjection: The case of gee! Journal of Historical Pragmatics 9:1, pp. 71–88 | Article
This paper is concerned with interjections that have evolved from nouns. Looking at a subclass of interjections, so-called expletives like gee!, jeeze!, gosh!, crikey!, it will be shown how primary interjections regularly evolve from religious names (here Jesus, God, Christ) via secondary… read more