Aspects of Grammaticalization : : (Inter)Subjectification and Directionality / / ed. by Daniel Olmen, Hubert Cuyckens, Lobke Ghesquière.

This volume advances our understanding of two highly debated aspects of grammaticalization: its relation to (inter)subjectification and its directionality. These aspects are studied with respect to such phenomena as auxiliaries, discourse markers, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns. Bringing to...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 305
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 403 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • I. Grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification
  • 1. Three types of subjectivity, three types of intersubjectivity, their dynamicization and a synthesis
  • 2. Grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification: The case of the Swedish modals må and måtte
  • 3. The French comparative modal constructions faire mieux de, valoir mieux and falloir mieux
  • 4. Discourse continuity and the written medium: Continuative relative clauses in the history of Dutch
  • 5. From verb of saying to discourse marker in Southern Min: (Inter)subjectification and grammaticalization
  • 6. The subjective and intersubjective uses of “fail to” and “not fail to”
  • II. Grammaticalization and directionality
  • 7. Paths of grammaticalization of Early Latin per/per-: A cognitive hypothesis
  • 8. Grammaticalization of the English adverbial subordinator in order that
  • 9. What happens after grammaticalization? Post-grammaticalization processes in the area of modality
  • 10. Can a language be forced? The case of Estonian
  • 11. Historical replication in contact grammaticalization
  • 12. External possessors in West Germanic and Romance: Differential speed in the drift toward NP configurationality
  • Index