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Approaches to grammaticalization. Volume II, Focus on types of grammatical markers / edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Typological studies in language ; v. 19:2.
- Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 19:2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- English language--Grammar.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (568 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development, and organization of grammatical categories in a number of language world-wide, with particul
- Contents:
- section A. Verbal structure
- section B. Argument structure
- section C. Subordination
- section D. Modality
- section E. Spectra of grammaticalization patterns.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-31330-8
- 9786613313300
- 90-272-7761-3
- OCLC:
- 756484569
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