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Approaches to Grammaticalization, Volume I: Theoretical and Methodological Issues

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1991
ISBN
9027228957, 9789027228956
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33250984 bytes)
Series
Typological Studies in Language 19:1
Edition
1st
Pages
372\373
Time added
2014-08-02 08:12:42

Description

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development, and organization of grammatical categories in a number of language world-wide, with particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues.The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.

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