New trends on grammaticalization and language change / edited by Sylvie Hancil, Tine Breban, José Vicente Lozano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hancil, Sylvie, editor.

Breban, Tine, 1980- editor.

Vicente Lozano, José Antonio, 1961- editor.

Series:

Studies in language companion series ; v. 202.

Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; Volume 202

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Linguistic change.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization--Case studies.

Linguistic change--Case studies.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vi, 433 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Summary:

The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models, such as constructionalization, the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers, and reveal a renewed interest in the typological application of grammaticalization and in the cognitive motivations for unidirectionality. The contributors consider data from a wide range of languages, including several that have not or marginally been looked at in terms of grammaticalization: Chinese, Dutch, (varieties of) English, French, German, Japanese, Maltese, Old Saxon, Spanish, and languages of the South Caucasian and Zhuang Tai-Kadai families. The chapters range from theoretical discussions to fine-grained analyses of new historical and comparative language data.

Contents:

Introduction: grammaticalization in the 2010s: a dialogue between the old and the new / Tine Breban and Sylvie Hancil

Are there two different ways of approaching grammaticalization? / Bernd Heine

Functional similarity despite geographical distance: On the grammaticalization of German mal and Chinese yixià / Ekkehard Koenig and Jingying Li

Analogy: Its role in language learning, categorization, and in models of language change such as grammaticalization and constructionalization / Olga Fischer

Central Southern Guangxi as a grammaticalization area / Yang Huang and Fuxiang Wu

Grammaticalizing connectives in English and discourse information structure / Diana M. Lewis

The grammaticalization of interrogative pronouns into relative pronouns in South-Caucasian languages: Internal development or replica? / Ophelie Gandon

From time to surprise: The case of será posible in Spanish / Susana Rodriguez Rosique

C-gravitation and the grammaticalization degree of 'present progressives' in English, French, and Dutch / Naoaki Wada

The avertive and proximative grams in Maltese using the auxiliary ghodd / Maris Camilleri

Pragmatic uses of Nu in old Saxon and old English / Elise Louviot

(Inter)subjectification and paradigmaticization: The case study of the final particle but / Sylvie Hancil

The development of three classifiers into degree modifier constructions in Chinese / Yueh Hsin Kuo

From the inside to the outside of the sentence: forming a larger discourse unit with jijitsu 'fact' in japanese / Reijirou Shibasaki

The development of the Chinese scalar additive coordinators derived from prohibitives, a constructionist perspective / Bing Zhu and Kaoru Horie

Cross-varietal diversity in constructional entrenchment: The final-tag construction in Irish and American English / Mitsuko Narita Izutsu and Katsunobu Izutsu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: New trends on grammaticalization and language change

ISBN:

9789027201638

9027201633

OCLC:

1039912314