Approaches to Grammaticalization. Volume 1: Theoretical and methodological issues.

TRAUGOTT, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd HEINE (eds.)

ISBN 10: 9027228957 / ISBN 13: 9789027228956

Published by John Benjamins, 1991

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• Title: Approaches to Grammaticalization. Volume 1: Theoretical and methodological issues.
• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027228957
• ISBN 13: 9789027228956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.84 kilograms

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Synopsis

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 particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues.

The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.