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What Makes Grammaticalization?: A Look From Its Fringes And Its Components (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)

By Nikolaus P. Himmelmann , Walter Bisang , Bjorn Wiemer

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
3110181525, 9783110181524
Open Library ID
OL9017564M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1679285 bytes)
Pages
354\361
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The status of grammaticalization has been the subject of many controversial discussions. The contributions to What makes Grammaticalization approach the prevalent phenomenon from the angle of language structure and focus on the interrelation between the levels of phonology, pragmatics (inference), discourse and the lexicon and some of them try to integrate the areal perspective. A wealth of data from Slavonic languages as well as from languages of other genetic and areal affiliation is discussed. The book is of interest to linguists specializing in grammaticalization, lexicalization and morphological typology, to language typologists as well as to functional, historical and cognitive linguists.

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