Ebook: Thoughts on grammaticalization
Author: Christian Lehmann
- Genre: Linguistics // Linguistics
- Tags: Philology Linguistics, grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, reanalysis, renewal, reinforcement, analogy, paradigmatic relation, syntagmatic relation, word order
- Series: Classics in Linguistics 1
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Language Science Press
- Edition: 3rd
- Language: English
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After a short review of the history of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ordered by grammatical domains such as the verbal, pronominal and nominal sphere and clause level relations. The final chapter presents a theory of grammaticalization which is based on the Read more...