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 contributio...

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