Corpus approaches to grammaticalization in English / edited by Hans Lindquist, Christian Mair.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindquist, Hans.

Mair, Christian.

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 13.

Studies in corpus linguistics, 1388-0373 ; v. 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Discourse analysis.

English language.

English language--Grammaticalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As a counterexample to unidirectionality in grammaticalization, Newmeyer (1998:270) cites the loss of second-person singular subject clitics, e.g., in hastou and wiltou, in 16th century English (Kroch et al. 1982). These forms are a common, albeit optional, feature of Middle English. Though full thou forms replace -tou/-tow clitics in Early Modern English, second-person plural enclitics, subject proclitics, and object enclitics attest to the continued viability of clisis. This paper argues that -tou/-tow is a reduced form, not a clitic, its disappearance being attributable to loss of a phonological rule, not decliticization. This change predates the replacement of thou by you, the non-expression of subjects in imperatives, and the spread of do in questions and is sudden rather than gradual.

Contents:

Corpus Approaches to Grammaticalization in English

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction

References

Three perspectives on grammaticalization

Notes

Have to, gotta, must

The semantic path from modality to aspect

Appendix

The passival and the progressive passive

Corpus linguistics and grammaticalisation theory

Appendix: Statistical documentation for Figures 1 to 5

Grammaticalisation from side to side

Are low-frequency complex prepositions grammaticalized?

Life after degrammaticalisation

Subject clitics in English

Name index

Subject index

The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics.

Notes:

"Contains revised versions of five out of six papers presented at the international symposium ... organized by Hans Lindquist at V?axj?o University, Sweden, in 20-22 April 2001"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612254437

9789027295484

9027295484

9781282254435

128225443X

9781423766353

1423766350