Grammaticalization
Current views and issues
Editors
This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization research such as the concept of 'grammar' as the endpoint of grammaticalization processes, erosion, (uni)directionality, the relation between grammaticalization and constructions, subjectification, and the relation between grammaticalization and analogy. Other papers shed a critical light on grammaticalization as an explanatory parameter in language change. New case studies of micro-processes of grammaticalization complete the selection. The empirical evidence for (and against) grammaticalization comes from diverse domains: subject control, clitics, reciprocal markers, pronouns and agreement markers, gender markers, auxiliaries, aspectual categories, intensifying adjectives and determiners, and pragmatic markers. The languages covered include English and its varieties, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, French, Slavonic languages, and Turkish. The book will be valuable to scholars working on grammaticalization and language change as well as to those interested in individual languages.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 119] 2010. vii, 379 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 15 September 2010
Published online on 15 September 2010
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Table of contents | pp. v–vi
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Preface | p. vii
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IntroductionKaterina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König | pp. 01–14
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part I Basic questions
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On some problem areas in grammaticalization studiesGabriele Diewald | pp. 17–50
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Issues in constructional approaches to grammaticalization in EnglishGraeme Trousdale | pp. 51–72
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Reconsidering erosion in grammaticalization: Evidence from cliticizationRené Schiering | pp. 73–100
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Grammaticalization, subjectification and objectificationSvenja Kranich | pp. 101–122
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Degrammaticalization: Three common controversiesMuriel Norde | pp. 123–150
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Degrammaticalization and obsolescent morphology: Evidence from SlavonicDavid Willis | pp. 151–178
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part II Grammaticalization and the explanation of language change
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An analogical approach to grammaticalizationOlga Fischer | pp. 181–220
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Does grammaticalisation need analogy? Different pathways on the ‘pronoun/agreement marker’-clineGunther De Vogelaer | pp. 221–240
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What grammaticalisation can reveal about same-subject controlDebra Ziegeler | pp. 241–272
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How the Latin neuter pronominal forms became markers of non-individuation in SpanishElisabeth Stark and Natascha Pomino | pp. 273–294
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part III Case studies of micro-processes of grammaticalization
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The Grammaticalization of the German adjectives lauter (and eitel)Elke Gehweiler | pp. 297–322
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Is German gehören an auxiliary? The grammaticalization of the construction gehören + participle IIKaterina Stathi | pp. 323–342
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Micro-processes of grammaticalization: The case of Italian l’un l’altroLetizia Vezzosi | pp. 343–372
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List of contributors | pp. 373–374
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Index | pp. 375–380
“This volume contains a valuable collection of strong contributions to the field of diachronic linguistics, and more specifically to the area of grammaticalization. In addressing issues of old standing as well as recent ones, it features a wide variety of research topics as well as research methods, such as corpus research, cross-linguistic sampling, field work, and oral and written language testing. Once can be confident that its principle of skilful empirical observation feeding into linguistic theory, and the combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses of language, will spark a range of stimulating new studies in the field.”
An Van Iinden, University of Leuven, in Functions of Language Vol. 19:1 (2012), pag. 135-145
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General