The limits of grammaticalization / edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paul J. Hopper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Giacalone Ramat, Anna, 1937-

Hopper, Paul J.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; v. 37.

Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The earliest use of the term "grammaticalization" was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "he keeps bees") become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in "he keeps looking at me"). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a downshift from a major to a minor category, have generally been agreed to come under the heading of grammaticalization. But other changes that equally contribute to new grammatical forms do not involve this kind of fading. In recent years, a debate has arisen over how to constrain the term theoretically. Is

Contents:

THE LIMITS OF GRAMMATICALIZATION; Editorial page; Title page; Copy right page; Table of contents; Introduction; Grammaticalization and language contact, constructions and positions; Grammaticalization and clause linkage strategies; Some remarks on analogy, reanalysis and grammaticalization; Testing the boundaries of grammaticalization; Discourse and pragmatic conditions of grammaticalization; The paradigm at the end of the universe; At the boundaries of grammaticalization; The grammaticalization of the left sentence boundary in Hittite

On the relationships between grammaticalization and lexicalizationStructural scope expansion and grammaticalization; On the application of the notion of grammaticalization to West African Pidgin English; Language Index; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Chiefly papers presented at a symposium held during the 28th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea which was held Aug. 1995, Leiden, Netherlands.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-31222-0

9786613312228

90-272-7557-2

OCLC:

756484622