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Davidse, Kristin, Tanja Mortelmans, Tine Breban and Lieselotte Brems, eds. 2012. Grammaticalization and Language Change. New reflections. (Studies in Language Companion Series 130). John Benjamins. viii+342 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features, and outcomes of these changes. New theoretical reflections are offered on the pragmatic motivation of grammaticalization paths, process-oriented differences between grammaticalization, lexicalization and degrammaticalization, the question of gradualness and pace of grammaticalization, and deictics as a distinct source of grammaticalization. The articles describe various constructional and distributional changes affecting deictics, determiners, reflexives, clitics, nouns, affixes, adverbs and (auxiliary) verbs, mainly in the Germanic and Romance languages.