What makes Grammaticalization? : : A Look from its Fringes and its Components /

What makes Grammaticalization? : : A Look from its Fringes and its Components / / ed. by Walter Bisang, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Björn Wiemer.

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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),...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Bisang, Walter,
Böttger, Katharina,
Gaeta, Livio,
Günther, Susanne,
Hansen, Björn,
Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.,
König, Ekkehard,
Lehmann, Volkmar,
Mutz, Katrin,
Vezzosi, Letizia,
Weiss, Daniel,
Wiemer, Björn,
HerausgeberIn:
Bisang, Walter,
Himmelmann, Nikolaus P.,
Wiemer, Björn,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2004
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 158
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Part I. General issues
  • What makes grammaticalization? An appraisal of its components and its frings
  • Lexicalisation and grammaticalization: Opposite or orthogonal?
  • Part II. On builiding grammar from below and from above: Between phonology and pragmatics
  • Exploring grammaticalization from below
  • Grammaticalization v. pragmaticaliuation? The development of pragmatic markers in German and Italian
  • Grammaticalization without coevolution of form and meaning: The case of tense-aspect in East and mainland Southeast Asia
  • The rise of an indefinite article: The case of Macedonian eden
  • Part III. Grammatical derivation
  • Grammaticalization via extending derivation
  • Grammaticalization the derivational way: The Russian aspectual prefixes po-, za-, ot-
  • Part IV. The role of lexical semantics and of constructions
  • The role of predicate meaning in the devekopment of reflexivity
  • Modals and the boundaries of grammaticalization: the case of Russian, Polish and Serbian-Croatian
  • The evolution of passives as grammatical constructions in Northern Slavic and Baltic languages
  • Backmatter

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