Different slants on grammaticalization / edited by Sylvie Hancil, Vittorio Tantucci.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hancil, Sylvie, editor.

Tantucci, Vittorio, editor.

Series:

Studies in Language Companion Series

Studies in Language Companion Series vol. 232

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

Summary:

This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the transformation of grammars.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Introduction

Section I. Diachronic approaches

Chapter 1. From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb

Chapter 2. From fear to reason

Chapter 3. - maɾa in Mara

Section II. Synchronic approaches

Chapter 4. Tracking Jespersen’s cycle in Veronese and Bresciano

Chapter 5. Could be, might be, maybe

Chapter 6. The final-appendage construction in Japanese and Korean

Chapter 7. New perspectives on phonological erosion as an aspect of grammaticalization

Section III. Interactive contexts

Chapter 8. On the development of discourse markers from elliptical structures

Chapter 9. On the grammaticalization of ideophones

Chapter 10. An emerging final particle

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hancil, Sylvie Different Slants on Grammaticalization

ISBN:

9789027252814

9027252815

OCLC:

1382696725