Approaches to grammaticalization Volume II, Focus on types of grammatical markers /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.
Description:	1 online resource (556 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 19:2 Typological studies in language ; v. 19:2.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization. English language -- Grammar. English language -- Grammar. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11121995

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Other authors / contributors:	Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. Heine, Bernd.
ISBN:	9789027277619 9027277613 902722899X 9027229007 1556194021 155619403X 9027229015 9027229023 1556194048 1556194056 9789027228994 1283313308 9781283313308 9786613313300 6613313300
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. English.
Summary:	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 particul.
Other form:	Print version: Approaches to grammaticalization. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Foreword
2. Introduction
3. I. Verbal structure
4. Back to the future
5. The\emergence of perfective aspect in Indo-Aryan languages
6. II. Argument structure
7. Grammaticization of topic into subject
8. From V/2 to subject clitics
9. The\role of motivation in the emergence of grammatical categories
10. Verbs to promotional suffixes in Sahaptian and klamath
11. Grammaticalization of postpositions and word order in Senufo languages
12. III. Subordination
13. From postposition to subordinator in Newari
14. The\evolution of dependent clause morpho-syntax in Biblical Hebrew
15. IV. Modality
16. A\quantitative perspective on the gramaticization of epistemic parentheticals in English
17. The\grammaticization of the German modal particles
18. V. Spectra of grammaticalization patterns
19. Areal and universal dimensions of grammatization in Lahu
20. Ways to go in Rama
21. Grammaticalization and related changes in contemporary German

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