Publications

Publication details [#29746]

Heine, Bernd. 1993. Review of $Grammaticalization. Linguistics 31 (6) : 1163–1165.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammaticalization | inference | linguistics | morphological process

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Review of

Hopper, Paul J. and Elisabeth Closs Traugott. 1993. Grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press.

Annotation

This book introduces the reader into the history, terminology, assumptions and achievements of grammaticalization theory, discussing key concepts such as reanalysis, inferencing, unidirectionality, morphologization and clause combining.