Meaning Change in Grammaticalization: An Enquiry into Semantic Reanalysis - Hardcover

Eckardt, Regine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199262608 ISBN 13: 9780199262601

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book explores the key mechanisms underlying semantic change. Meaning changes work, the author shows, through modes of reanalysis undertaken by speakers and listeners, and are particularly evident in processes of grammaticalization in which lexical items lose autonomous meaning. Regine Eckardt's approach is derived from formal semantic theory and developed in the context of several in-depth case studies. Her book will interest scholars and advanced students of historical and comparative linguistics and formal semantics.

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About the Author

Regine Eckardt is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Göttingen and associate editor of the Journal of Semantics. She is the author of Events, Adverbs and Other Things (1998) and of numerous articles on semantics, pragmatics, and language change, and with Klaus von Heusinger and Christoph Schwarze, editor of Words in Time (2003).

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199262608
• ISBN 13: 9780199262601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298