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Connecting grammaticalisation / Jens Nørgård-Sørensen, Lars Heltoft, Lene Schøsler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens.
- Series:
- Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; v. 65.
- Studies in functional and structural linguistics (SFSL), 0165-7712 ; v. 65
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Structural linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word order), constructional syntax and other grammatical subsystems is their paradigmatic organisation. The traditional concept of an inflexional paradigm is generalised as the structuring principle of grammar. Grammatical change involves paradigmatic restructuring, and in the process of grammatical change m
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Grammaticalisation and paradigmatic structure
- pt. 2. Case studies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786613360021
- 9781283360029
- 1283360020
- 9789027284136
- 902728413X
- OCLC:
- 767503047
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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