Overview

Grammaticalization is an important concept in general and typological linguistics and a prominent type of explanation in historical linguistics. For historical corpus linguists, grammaticalization theory provides a frame of orientation in their effort to analyze and systematize a fast-accumulating mass of data. Students of grammaticalization have become increasingly aware of the potential of existing corpora and established corpus-linguistic methodology for their work. This book continues and develops the dialogue between the two fields. All the contributions are based on extensive use of various electronic corpora. Relating corpus practices to recent theoretical concerns of grammaticalization studies they deal with grammaticalization and historical sociolinguistics, lexicalization and grammaticalization, layering, frequency, grammaticalization and dialects, degrammaticalization and grammaticalization in a contrastive perspective. The papers show that a synthesis of corpus methodology and grammaticalization studies leads to new and interesting insights about the mechanisms of language change and the communicative functions of language.

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Author:   Hans Lindquist (Växjö University) ,  Christian Mair (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Edition:   illustrated edition
Volume:   13
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781588115232

ISBN 10:   1588115232
Pages:   265
Publication Date:   22 June 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Lindquist, Hans); 3. Three perspectives on grammaticalization: Lexico-grammar, corpora and historical sociolinguistics (by Nevalainen, Terttu); 4. Have to, gotta, must?: Grammaticalisation, variation and specialization in English deontic modality (by Tagliamonte, Sali A.); 5. The semantic path from modality to aspect: be able to in a cross-linguistic perspective (by Aijmer, Karin); 6. The passival and the progressive passive: A case study of layering in the English aspect and voice systems (by Hundt, Marianne); 7. Corpus linguistics and grammaticalisation theory: Statistics, frequencies, and beyond (by Mair, Christian); 8. Grammaticalisation from side to side: On the development of beside(s) (by Rissanen, Matti); 9. Are low-frequency complex prepositions grammaticalized?: On the limits of corpus data - and the importance of intuition (by Hoffmann, Sebastian); 10. Life after degrammaticalisation: Plural be (by Wright, Laura); 11. Subject clitics in English: A case of degrammaticalization?* (by Brinton, Laurel J.); 12. Name index; 13. Subject index

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