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Grammaticalization - Theory and Data

By Ekkehard Konig , Sylvie Hancil

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
2014
ISBN
9027259275, 9789027259271
ISSN
0165-7763
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2330522 bytes)
Series
Studies in Language Companion Series 162
Pages
viii+294\304
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-11-02 18:22:03
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Грамматика (общая

Description

Since the 1980s theories and studies of grammaticalization have provided a major source of inspiration for the description and explanation of language change, giving rise to many publications and conferences. This collection presents original, empirical studies that explore various facets of grammaticalization research of both formal and functional orientation. The papers of this selection deal with general issues and specific empirical domains, such as personal pronouns; indefinite pronouns; final particles; tense and aspect markers; comitative markers and coordinating conjunctions. The languages covered include English, German, dialects of Italian, Japanese, Polish, and Walman (Papuan). The book will be of great interest to linguists working on language change in a wide variety of languages.

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