Overview

The recent resurgence of interest in the evolution of grammatical form and meaning from lexical material has reinvigorated historical analysis and theory. Some of the leading approaches to grammaticalization are illustrated here in 13 selected papers from a symposium held in April 1990.

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Author:   William Pagliuca (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   109
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9789027236128

ISBN 10:   9027236127
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   25 August 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface (by Pagliuca, William); 2. Ritualization and the development of language (by Haiman, John); 3. Phonogenesis (by Hopper, Paul J.); 4. The grammaticalization of French a (by Kilroe, Patricia); 5. The development of the definite article in French (by Epstein, Richard); 6. Grammaticalization as semantic change: a case study of preposition development (by Rubba, Johanna); 7. The grammaticalization of the perfect in Old English (by Carey, Kathleen); 8. Discourse origins of the present perfect (by Slobin, Dan I.); 9. TE and BA in Old through Middle Japanese (by Ohori, Toshio); 10. Finiteness and focus in Sinhala (by Paolillo, John C.); 11. Discourse morphology: a missing link to cyclical grammatical change (by Cyr, Danielle E.); 12. Word order change as category change: the Mande case (by Claudi, Ulrike); 13. Asymmetries in tense and aspect systems (by Bybee, Joan L.); 14. Grammaticalization as an explanatory parameter (by Heine, Bernd)

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The grammaticalization analyses gathered in this volume constitute an extremely valuable resource for further research in this area. -- Jyh Wee Sew, University of Otago

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