Main description: The book examines the relation between (inter- )subjectification and grammaticalization. As such, its aims are to clearly delineate the domain of (inter- )subjectivity - the encoding of speaker and hearer-orientation - in the language system, and to elaborate a…
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL serie…
by Andersen, Henning, International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, B.C.), International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Vancouver, British Columbia, Workshop on "Patterns of Actualization in Linguistic Change", Vancouver, B.C.)
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The book is concerned with a hitherto underresearched grammaticalization process: the development from quality-attributing adjective to determiner in the English noun phrase. It takes a bottom-up approach, based on extensive synchronic and diachronic corpus studies of six Englis…
This title develops an approach to language change based on construction grammar in order to reconceptualise grammaticalisation and lexicalisation. The authors show that language change proceeds by micro-steps involving every aspect of grammar including pragmatics and discourse …
This volume of selected papers from the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Osaka, Japan, July 2011) presents a set of stimulating and ground-breaking studies on a wide range of languages and language families. As the scope of studies that can be characteriz…
