Publications

Publication details [#54920]

Sansò, Andrea and Caterina Mauri. 2011. How directive constructions emerge: Grammaticalization, constructionalization, cooptation. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (14) : 3489–3521.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

directive | directive, processing of | discourse strategy | grammaticalization

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Using a 200-language sample, this study presents an elaborate survey of the most frequent diachronic processes of emergence of positive directive strategies, discussing three basic processes: grammaticalization, cooptation and constructionalization.