The limits of grammaticalization

The limits of grammaticalization

by Giacalone Ramat, Anna Hopper, Paul J.

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The earliest use of the term "grammaticalization" was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "he keeps bees") become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in "he keeps looking at me"). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a downshift from a major to a minor category, have generally been agreed to come under the heading of grammaticalization. But other changes that equally contribute to new grammatical forms do not involve this …

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  • Full title :The limits of grammaticalization / edited by Anna Giacalone Ramat, Paul J. Hopper.

Summary

The earliest use of the term "grammaticalization" was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "he keeps bees") become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in "he keeps looking at me"). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a downshift from a major to a minor category, have generally been agreed to come under the heading of grammaticalization. But other changes that equally contribute to new grammatical forms do not involve this kind of fading. In recent years, a debate has arisen over how to constrain the term theoretically. Is.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©1998.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):J. Benjamins
  • Place of Publication:Amsterdam
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©1998.

Notes

Chiefly papers presented at a symposium held during the 28th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea which was held Aug. 1995, Leiden, Netherlands.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (vi, 302 pages).

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789027275578, 9027275572
  • oclc:ocn769188793
  • LC Classification:P299.G73
  • Dewey Decimal:415

Table of Contents

THE LIMITS OF GRAMMATICALIZATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copy right page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- REFERENCES -- Grammaticalization and language contact, constructions and positions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Continuity through time: The position of the relative clause in Chinese and the Chinese equational construction -- 2.1. On the positional stability of the relative clause within the relative construction -- 2.2. The equational construction in Chinese: Functional stability vs. change of surface form5 -- 3. Serial units: Verb serialization and attractor positions.

4. Classifier constructions: Two processes of development, one construction -- 5. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Grammaticalization and clause linkage strategies -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some instances of complementizer development -- 2.1. Theoretical premise -- 2.2. From verb to complementizer: Banda Linda -- 2.3. From relative pronoun to complementizer: Biblical Hebrew -- 2.4. From focus marker to complementizer: Hittite -- 3. The Ancient Greek case -- 3.1. Origin of oti and -- 3.2. Distribution and diachronic development of oti -- 3.3 Distribution and diachronic development of.

3.4. T…

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Subjects

Conference papers and proceedings Gramática (teoria) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Con… Grammar, Comparative and general -- Gra… Grammaticalisation -- Congrès Grammaticalisering Grammatiktheorie LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar … LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist…

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Giacalone Ramat, Anna Hopper, Paul J.

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