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Approaches to GrammaticalizationVolume II. Types of grammatical markers
1991. xii, 558 pp.
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978 90 272 2899 4 / EUR 195.00 978 1 55619 402 3 / USD 293.00
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Part of the set: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), Approaches to Grammaticalization: 2 Volumes (set).
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, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.
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 language world-wide, with particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues. The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.
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