Grammaticalization

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This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization. Each chapter offers guidance on further reading, and concludes with study questions to encourage further discussion; there is also a glossary of key terminology in the field.

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Full title :Grammaticalization / Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine.

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Publication Date:©2021
Edition:First edition

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

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9: Theory-specific approaches.

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Description:1 online resource (433 pages)

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ISBN:9780191065088, 0191065080
oclc:on1243547112
LC Classification:P299.G73
Dewey Decimal:415

Cover -- Grammaticalization -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of figures and tables -- Abbreviations -- 1: Introduction -- 1.1 What is grammaticalization? -- 1.2 Primary vs. secondary grammaticalization -- 1.3 Unidirectionality -- 1.4 Direction of semantic change in grammaticalization and expansion of scope -- 1.5 Grammaticalization as explanation -- 1.6 How to study grammaticalization -- 1.6.1 Diachronic grammaticalization studies -- 1.6.2 Grammaticalization as a synchronic concept -- 1.6.3 Reconstruction -- 1.7 Overview of the remainder of the book

2: Criteria, parameters, and other variables -- 2.1 An overview -- 2.2 Discussion -- 2.3 Conclusions -- 3: Four parameters of grammaticalization -- 3.1 Context extension -- 3.1.1 The context extension model -- 3.1.2 Discussion -- 3.1.3 On the differential behavior of stages -- 3.2 Desemanticization -- 3.3 Decategorialization -- 3.4 Erosion -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4: Directionality of semantic change in grammaticalization -- 4.1 Bleaching, generalization, abstraction -- 4.2 Discourse orientation -- 4.2.1 Increase in speaker orientation -- 4.2.2 Increase in hearer orientation

4.2.3 Increase in textual orientation -- 4.2.4 Disc…