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"This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development and organization of grammatical categories in a number of languages world-wide, with particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues. The papers in volume one are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method and the second with issues of directionality. Those in volume two are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization. The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of ""langue"" and ""parole"", creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of 20th-century linguistics."

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Author:   Elizabeth Closs Traugott ,  Bernd Heine
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   19:2
Weight:   1.175kg
ISBN:  

9789027228994

ISBN 10:   902722899
Pages:   558
Publication Date:   15 October 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Foreword; 2. Introduction (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs); 3. I. Verbal structure; 4. Back to the future (by Bybee, Joan L.); 5. The emergence of perfective aspect in Indo-Aryan languages (by Hook, Peter Edwin); 6. II. Argument structure; 7. Grammaticization of topic into subject (by Shibatani, Masayoshi); 8. From V/2 to subject clitics: evidence from Northern Italian (by Haiman, John); 9. The role of motivation in the emergence of grammatical categories: the grammaticization of subjects (by Mithun, Marianne); 10. Verbs to promotional suffixes in Sahaptian and klamath (by Rude, Noel); 11. Grammaticalization of postpositions and word order in Senufo languages (by Carlson, Robert); 12. III. Subordination; 13. From postposition to subordinator in Newari (by Genetti, Carol); 14. The evolution of dependent clause morpho-syntax in Biblical Hebrew (by Givon, T.); 15. IV. Modality; 16. A quantitative perspective on the gramaticization of epistemic parentheticals in English (by Thompson, Sandra A.); 17. The grammaticization of the German modal particles (by Abraham, Werner); 18. V. Spectra of grammaticalization patterns; 19. Areal and universal dimensions of grammatization in Lahu (by Matisoff, James A.); 20. Ways to go in Rama: a case study in polygrammaticalization (by Craig, Colette G.); 21. Grammaticalization and related changes in contemporary German (by Lehmann, Christian)

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