Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization

Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization
Author :
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages : 318
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789027288448
ISBN-13 : 9027288445
Rating : 4/5 (445 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization by : Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Download or read book Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, contains a collection of papers which investigate the relationship between synchronic gradience and the apparent gradualness of linguistic change, largely from the perspective of grammaticalization. In addition to versions of the papers presented at the workshop, the volume contains specially commissioned contributions, some of which offer commentaries on a subset of the other articles. The articles address a number of themes central to grammaticalization studies, such as the role of reanalysis and analogy in grammaticalization, the formal modelling of grammaticalization, and the relationship between formal and functional change, using data from a range of languages, and (in some cases) from particular electronic corpora. The volume will be of specific interest to historical linguists working on grammaticalization, and general linguists working on the interface between synchrony and diachrony.


Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization Related Books