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Author:   Walter Bisang ,  Nikolaus P. Himmelmann ,  Björn Wiemer
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter Mouton
Volume:   158
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.624kg
ISBN:  

9783110181524

ISBN 10:   3110181525
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   16 December 2004
Recommended Age:   College Graduate Student
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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I. General issues 1. W. Bisang, B. Wiemer: Introduction: What makes grammaticalization - a look from its components and its fringes 2. N. Himmelmann: Lexicalization and grammaticization: opposite or orthogonal II. On building grammar from below and from above: between phonology and pragmatics 3. L. Gaeta: Exploring grammaticalization from below 4. S. Günthner & K. Mutz: Grammaticalization vs. pragmaticalization? The development of pragmatic markers in German and Italian 5. W. Bisang: Grammaticalization without coevolution of form and meaning as an areal phenomenon in East and mainland Southeast Asia - the case of tense-aspect-mood (TAM) 6. D. Weiss: The rise of an indefinite article: the case of Macedonian eden III. Grammatical derivation 7. V. Lehmann: Grammaticalization via extending derivation 8. K. Böttger: Grammaticalization the derivational way: the Russian aspectual prefixes po-, za-, ot- IV. The role of lexical semantics and of constructions 9. E. König & L. Vezzosi: The role of predicate meaning in the development of reflexivity 10. B. Hansen: Modals and boundaries of grammaticalization. The case of Russian, Polish and Serbian/Croatian 11. B. Wiemer: The evolution of passives as grammatical constructions in Northern Slavic and Baltic languages

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Walter Bisang is Professor of Linguistics at Mainz University, Germany. Nikolaus Himmelmann is Professor of Linguistics at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Björn Wiemer teaches at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

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