Formal evidence in grammaticalization research / edited by An Van linden, Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Kristin Davidse; in collaboration with Hubert Cuyckens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Linden, An van, 1982-

Verstraete, Jean-Christophe, 1976-

Davidse, Kristin.

Cuyckens, H.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 94.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 94

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

viii, 344 p. : ill. (some col.).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This article revisits the alleged unidirectionality of grammaticalization, focusing on the marginal modal dare, which previous research has discussed as a potential counterexample. Being in its origin a member of the inhomogeneous group of modal auxiliaries, dare has since Early Modern English times developed certain full verb characteristics that would assign it a place near the lexical end of the grammaticalization scale. This study provides detailed corpus data, yielding a complex picture that defies an easy localization of dare on the lexical - grammatical scale: different verb forms of dare have to be distinguished, which appear to occupy different stages of evolution or even tend to drift into opposite directions. The results furthermore point to cross-cutting influences on the marking of dependent infinitives (rhythm, grammatical complexity).

Contents:

Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

References

On problem areas in grammaticalization:

1. Introduction

2. Form and function

3. Grammaticalization and analogy-based learning

4. A brief conclusion

Corpora

Abbreviations

Grammaticalization within and outside of a domain

1. The problem and the scope of this study

2. Traditional approaches to grammaticalization

3. Grammaticalization outside and within a domain: A model

4. Point of view of the subject versus unspecified point of view in Hausa

5. Perfective versus habitual aspect in Mupun

6. Subject suffixes versus object suffixes in Gidar

7. Affirmative versus negative clauses in Gidar

8. Unmarked tense versus present in Wandala

9. Unmarked tense versus specific past in Wandala

10. Locative complement versus direct object marker in Hdi

11. Inherently locative versus inherently non-locative goal in Hdi

12. A scenario for grammaticalization within a domain

13. The directionality of grammaticalization within a domain

14. Implications

15. Open questions

Delexicalizing di

2. Previous studies on the development of nominalizer di ~ de

3. Delexicalizing di

3.1 Etymology and cognates of di

3.2 From locative noun to light noun and interrogative pronoun

3.3 Intensifier and exclamative functions

3.4 Emergence of nominalizer and adnominal uses of di

3.5 An attitudinal nominalizer: The rise of sentence-final de

4. Another Chinese attitudinal nominalizer - zhe

5. Cross-dialectal and cross-linguistic parallels

6. Conclusion

Should conditionals be emergent …

1. Interrogatives and conditionals.

2. The grammaticalization perspective

3. Asyndetic conditionals as constructions

4. Synchronic discourse basis

5. Historical data

Old English and old high German texts

From manner expression to attitudinal discourse marker

1.1 Type I anders: [+comparative, +phoric]

1.2 Type II anders: [-comparative, +phoric]

1.3 Type III anders: [-comparative, -phoric]

1.4 Outline of the structure

2. Identifying intraclausal type I anders

2.1 Proportionality

2.2 Clefting

2.3 Interaction with negation

2.3.1 Anders in the scope of negation

2.3.2 Anders in initial position of a negative clause

3. Identifying strongly interclausal type II anders

3.1 Non-applicability of type I criteria

3.1.1 Proportionality

3.1.2 Clefting

3.1.3 Interaction with negation

3.2 Accommodation

3.2.1 Negative conditionality accommodation

3.2.2 Disjunctive accommodation

3.2.3 Exceptive accommodation

3.3 Interaction with conjunctions

4. Identifying weakly interclausal type III anders

4.1 Non-applicability of type I criteria

4.1.1 Proportionality

4.1.2 Clefting

4.1.3 Interaction with negation

4.2 Non-applicability of type II criteria

4.2.1 Accommodation

4.2.2 Interaction with conjunctions

4.3 Type III anders as an attitudinal discourse marker

5. Word order patterns

6. Conclusions

6.1 The three types of anders in a broader perspective

6.2 From synchronic criteria to grammaticalization parameters/principles

Appendix: The standard lexicographical analyses of anders

1. Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal

2. Van Dale Groot woordenboek van de Nederlandse taal

Grammaticalization and lexicalization effects in participial morphology

1.1 Data.

1.2 Grammaticalization and lexicalization

1.3 Constructional approach

2. Old Czech participial adjective

3. Case-study

3.1 PAs in an event-profiling (predicative) function

3.2 Functionally ambiguous PA tokens

3.3 PAs in a participant-profiling (modification) function

3.3.1 Habitual meanings

3.3.2 Resultative meaning

3.3.3 Modal extensions: Possibility and purposes/intentions

3.3.4 Summary of features in participant-profiling patterns

4. Generalizations about partial changes

4.1 Grammaticalization vs. lexicalization

4.2 Constructional representation of incremental changes

5. Conclusions

Frequency as a cause of semantic change

2. Data

3. Methodology

3.1 Grammatical roles

3.2 Frequency as linguistic data

4. The history of omae

4.1 The locative usage

4.2 The third person usage

4.3 The second person usage

4.4 The distributional patterns of omae

5. Frequency as a cause of semantic change

6. Lexicalization as a reflection of semantic change

7. Discussion and conclusion

Texts

The role of frequency and prosody in the grammaticalization of Korean -canh-

2. From negation to interactive marker

2.1 Data and methodology

2.2 Frequencies of the long and reduced forms

2.3 Collocation frequency

3. Grammar and information flow

4. Fossilization of a high frequency sequence

4.1 Conversation opener: Iss-canha(yo)

4.2 A high frequency sequence of -canh-

5. Intonation patterns and grammaticalization

5.1 Boundary tones of the source and target forms

5.2 High and low boundary tones of -canh(a)

5.3 Distinct functions of the high boundary tone: -canha [H%] vs. -ci anha [H%]

5.4 Intonation, grammaticalization, and intersubjectivity.

6. Phonological reduction and reanalysis

7. Conclusion

Emergence of the indefinite article:

2. Mandarin Chinese: A language without articles?

3. The data and preliminary findings

4. Distribution over grammatical functions

5. Indefinite marking and departure from numeral classifier usage

6. Grammaticalization of yige and the emergence of the indefinite article

7. Implications and conclusion

To dare to or not to

1.1 Auxiliarization

1.2 The case of dare

1.3 Methodological issues

2. Dimensions of auxiliarihood

2.1 The form of dare: Full verb or auxiliary?

2.2 The infinitival complement: Marked or unmarked?

3. Beyond (de-)auxiliarization: Influences on infinitival marking

3.1 Avoidance of stress clashes

3.2 Compensation of syntactic complexity

4. Discussion

4.1 Summary

4.2 Alternative accounts

4.3 Conclusion

Author index

Index of languages and language families

Subject index

The series Typological Studies in Language.

Notes:

The present volume finds its origin in the conference "From ideational to interpersonal: Perspectives from grammaticalization" (FITIGRA), held at the University of Leuven from 10 to 12 February 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612904578

9781282904576

1282904574

9789027287670

9027287678

OCLC:

697613633