Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization / edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs.

Trousdale, Graeme, 1971-

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 90.

Typological studies in language

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Gradience (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

viii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2010]

Contents:

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface / Graeme Trousdale and Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: how do they intersect? / Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale

Grammaticalization, the clausal hierarchy and semantic bleaching / Ian Roberts

Grammatical interference: subject marker for and the phrasal verb particles out and forth / Hendrik De Smet

Category change in English with and without structural change / David Denison

Features in reanalysis and grammaticalization / Elly van Gelderen

How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa) / Anette Rosenbach

What can synchronic gradience tell us about reanalysis? Verb-first conditionals in written German and Swedish / Martin Hilpert

A paradigmatic approach to language and language change / Lene Schøsler

Grammaticalization and the it-cleft construction / Amanda L. Patten

Grammaticalization in Chinese: a construction-based account / Walter Bisang

Grammaticalization and models of language / Nigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars

Language index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789027206718

9027206716

9789027288448

9027288445

OCLC:

461896831