Pathways of Change
Grammaticalization in English
Editors
Netlibrary e-Book – Not for resale
ISBN 9780585463308
There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one of the best-documented languages in the world, English. Pathways of Change contains discussion of new data and provides theoretical lead articles based on these data that will help sharpen the theoretical aspects involved, such as the definition and the logical connection of the component processes of grammaticalization. The volume is concentrated around a number of themes that are important or controversial in grammaticalization studies, such as the principle of unidirectionality, the relation between lexicalization and grammaticalization — and connected with these two factors the possibility of degrammaticalization — the way iconicity interweaves with grammaticalization processes, and with the phenomenon of grammaticalization on a synchronic or discourse level, also often termed subjectifization.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] 2000. x, 391 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 January 2003
Published online on 1 January 2003
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
-
Contributors | pp. vii–viii
-
Preface | pp. ix–x
-
IntroductionOlga Fischer and Anette Rosenbach | pp. 1–37
-
A lovely little example: Word order options and category shift in the premodifying stringSylvia M. Adamson | pp. 39–66
-
The grammaticalization of the verb ‘pray’Minoji Akimoto | pp. 67–84
-
The grammaticalization of concessive markers in Early Modern EnglishGuohua Chen | pp. 85–110
-
Combining English auxiliariesDavid Denison | pp. 111–147
-
Grammaticalisation: Unidirectional, non-reversable? The case of to before the infinitive in EnglishOlga Fischer | pp. 149–169
-
Remarks on the de-grammaticalisation of infinitival to in present-day American EnglishSusan Fitzmaurice | pp. 171–186
-
The role of person and position in Old EnglishElly van Gelderen | pp. 187–206
-
Remarks on (uni)directionalityRoger Lass | pp. 207–227
-
Soþlice and witodlice: Discourse markers in Old EnglishUrsula Lenker | pp. 229–249
-
Onginnan/beginnan with bare and to-infinitive in ÆlfricBettelou Los | pp. 251–274
-
Some suggestions for explaining the origin and development of the definite article in EnglishRobert McColl Millar | pp. 275–310
-
Parallelism vs. asymmetry: The case of English counterfactual conditionalsRafal Molencki | pp. 311–328
-
The grammaticalization of the present perfect in English: Tracks of change and continuity in a linguistic enclaveSali A. Tagliamonte | pp. 329–354
-
Grammaticalization versus lexicalization: ‘Methinks’ there is some confusionIlse Wischer | pp. 355–370
-
Name index | pp. 371–376
-
Subject index | pp. 377–391
“Nearly all the paper published in this volume have in one way or another provided grounds for reevaluating the principle of unidirectionality of change which is often considered a basic feature of grammaticalizaiton.”
Agustinus Gianto, Pontifical Biblical Institute Rome, Language 79(1), 2003
Cited by (31)
Cited by 31 other publications
Lívio, Camila & Chad Howe
Al-Raba'a, Basem Ibrahim Malawi
Anastassiadis-Syméonidis, Anna
Fuentes Rodríguez, Catalina
Arechabaleta Regulez, Begoña & Silvina Montrul
Joseph, Brian D.
Criado-Peña, Miriam
Kuteva, Tania, Bernd Heine, Bo Hong, Haiping Long, Heiko Narrog & Seongha Rhee
Breban, Tine & Sylvie Hancil
2018. Introduction. In New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change [Studies in Language Companion Series, 202], ► pp. 1 ff.
SCHÜTZLER, OLE
Mohamed, Emad
Levon, Erez & Isabelle Buchstaller
De Smet, Hendrik
2014. Does innovation need reanalysis?. In Usage-Based Approaches to Language Change [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 69], ► pp. 23 ff.
KILLIE, KRISTIN
Van Olmen, Daniël & Hubert Cuyckens
AMANO, MASACHIYO
Los, Bettelou
Los, Bettelou
Hickey, Raymond
Hickey, Raymond
[no author supplied]
[no author supplied]
[no author supplied]
[no author supplied]
[no author supplied]
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 5 november 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General