Grammaticalization and Language Change

New reflections
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-272-0597-1
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Co

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 776 g

Reihe: Studies in Language Companion Series

This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features, and outcomes of these changes. New theoretical reflections are offered on the pragmatic motivation of grammaticalization paths, process-oriented differences between grammaticalization, lexicalization and degrammaticalization, the question of gradualness and pace of grammaticalization, and deictics as a distinct source of grammaticalization. The articles describe various constructional and distributional changes affecting deictics, determiners, reflexives, clitics, nouns, affixes, adverbs and (auxiliary) verbs, mainly in the Germanic and Romance languages. The volume will be of great interest to historical linguists working on grammaticalization and related changes, and to all linguists working on the interface between morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidse, Kristin

Breban, Tine

Brems, Lieselotte

Mortelmans, Tanja

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cornillie, Bert

Cuyckens, Hubert

Leuschner, Torsten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: New reflections on the sources, outcomes, defining features and motivations of grammaticalization
Tine Breban, Jeroen Vanderbiesen, Kristin Davidse, Lieselotte Brems and Tanja Mortelmans

Bühler’s two-field theory of pointing and naming and the deictic origins of grammatical morphemes
Holger Diessel

On the origins of grammaticalization and other types of language change in discourse strategies
Richard Waltereit

Lehmann’s parameters revisited
Muriel Norde

“Paradigmatic integration”: The fourth stage in an expanded grammaticalization scenario
Gabriele Diewald and Elena Smirnova

“The ghosts of old morphology”: Lexicalization or (de)grammaticalization?
Laurel J. Brinton

Grammaticalization, constructions and the grammaticalization of constructions
Graeme Trousdale

Gradualness of grammaticalization in Romance. The position of French, Spanish and Italian
Walter De Mulder and Béatrice Lamiroy

Development of periphrastic tense and aspect constructions in Irish and Welsh
Patricia Ronan

Emergence and grammaticalization of constructions within the se me network of Spanish
Chantal Melis and Marcela Flores

A discourse-based analysis of object clitic doubling in Spanish
Victoria Vázquez Rozas and Marcos García Salido

The many careers of negative polarity items
Regine Eckardt

Author Index

Subject Index