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Shared grammaticalization : with special focus on the Transeurasian languages / edited by Martine Robbeets, Hubert Cuyckens.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in language companion series ; v. 132.
- Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 132
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Altaic languages--Grammaticalization.
- Altaic languages.
- Altaic languages--Grammar, Comparative.
- Altaic languages--Morphology.
- Altaic languages--Syntax.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Double-negative periphrastic litotes have been for nearly three centuries the usual way to express necessitive predicates in Japanese and Korean. These constructions do not, however, go back to the earliest stages of these languages and should not be invoked as evidence of a possible common origin. But Korean also has a double-affirmative periphrastic necessitive construction. Premodern Japanese has no overt counterpart to it, but it does have an auxiliary adjective that expresses necessity. I argue that this auxiliary was a grammaticalization of a periphrastic analogous in form and meaning to
- Contents:
- pt. I. Shared grammaticalization : typological and theoretical aspects
- pt. II. Shared grammaticalization in the Transeurasian languages
- pt. III. Shared grammaticalization in the Altaic languages
- pt. IV. Shared grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781299283763
- 1299283764
- 9789027272140
- 902727214X
- OCLC:
- 830160721
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