Studies on Grammaticalization / / ed. by Johannes Helmbrecht, Stavros Skopeteas, Yong-Min Shin, Yoko Nishina, Elisabeth Verhoeven.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.,; Ammann, Andreas,; Askedal, John Ole,; Bohoussou, Amani,; Diewald, Gabriele,; Helmbrecht, Johannes,; Koo, Myung-Chul,; Maslova, Elena,; Mauri, Caterina,; Nishina, Yoko,; Quesada, J. Diego,; Ramat, Anna Giacalone,; Schultze-Berndt, Eva,; Shin, Yong-Min,; Skopeteas, Stavros,; Stolz, Thomas,; Tsunoda, Tasaku,; Verhoeven, Elisabeth,; Wischer, Ilse,
• HerausgeberIn: Helmbrecht, Johannes,; Nishina, Yoko,; Shin, Yong-Min,; Skopeteas, Stavros,; Verhoeven, Elisabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 205
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

Grammaticalization theory has played a major role in the developments in language typology and functional linguistics during the last three decades. Grammaticalization phenomena show that grammars evolve in a continuous way following cross-linguistically established diachronic paths. The contributions in this book shed new light on some central issues in grammaticalization theory such as the (uni-)directionality debate, the relation between grammaticalization and constructions, and the concept of multiple grammaticalization. Evidence for grammaticalization in several domains of grammar is presented: adpositions, numeral classifiers, honorifics, agreement markers, applicatives, reciprocals, delexical verbs, auxiliaries, relative clauses, and discourse particles. The empirical investigations come from several languages, among them many understudied languages such as Nanafwe, Maltese, Manambu, Chibchan and Siouan languages.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Glosses -- Introduction -- I. Directionality of grammaticalization -- processes -- Unidirectionality of grammaticalization in an -- evolutionary perspective -- Grammaticalization and sets of form-functionpairs: -- Encoding spatial concepts in Greek -- II. Nominal categories and adpositions -- Grammaticalization of Korean numeral -- classifiers -- Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in -- Nànáfwê -- On the grammaticalization of the German preposition -- von as a genitive equivalent -- III. Verbal categories -- The grammaticalization of agreement in -- Chibchan -- Decay and loss of applicatives in Siouan languages: -- A grammaticalization perspective -- Reciprocals in the making: multiple -- grammaticalization in Manambu -- The Maltese continuative: A grammaticalization -- borderliner -- What do “do” verbs do? The semantic diversity of -- generalised action verbs -- Predicting a future change: Relative clauses of -- Japanese -- IV. Grammaticalization and constructions -- The catalytic function of constructional -- restrictions in grammaticalization -- Grammaticalization of periphrastic -- constructions -- Grammaticalization in constructions: Clitic -- doubling with experiencers in Modern Greek -- Grammaticalization of honorific constructions in -- Japanese -- From cause to contrast: A study in semantic -- change -- Backmatter