Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization / / ed. by Hubert Cuyckens, Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vandelanotte.

This volume aims to arrive at a fine-grained and grammar-based understanding of the notions of (inter-)subjectivity and (inter-)subjectification in their application to grammaticalization research. In terms of linguistic theory, position is taken vis-à-vis existing approaches to (inter-)subjectifica...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 66
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Physical Description:1 online resource (447 p.) :; num. figs. and tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Theoretical issues
  • (Inter)subjectivity and (inter)subjectification: A reassessment
  • Part 2. (Inter)subjectification and grammaticalization involving adverbials
  • Presupposition accommodation and language change
  • How prosody reflects semantic change: A synchronic case study of of course
  • The semantic-pragmatic development of well from the viewpoint of (inter)subjectification
  • Paths in the development of elaborative discourse markers: Evidence from Spanish
  • Part 3. (Inter)subjectification and grammaticalization in the noun phrase
  • The emergence of the definite article: ille in competition with ipse in Late Latin
  • On the subjectification and intersubjectification paths followed by the adjectives of completeness
  • On the rise of (inter)subjective meaning in the grammaticalization of kind of/kinda
  • Part 4. (Inter)subjectification and grammaticalization involving modals
  • Better as a verb
  • (Inter)subjectification in the domain of modality and mood – Concepts and cross-linguistic realities
  • Backmatter