Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
3rd edition 2015
ISBN:
9783946234050
Series Statement:
Classics in linguistics 1
Content:
"Thoughts on grammaticalization" was first published in a working-paper version in 1982 and became very influential immediately, even though it was properly published only in 1995. Despite its modest title, the book can be read as an advanced introduction to grammaticalization, though its conception is very original. The present edition contains a number of corrections of the 1995 edition. 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 autonomy of the linguistic sign with respect to the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes. This is the basis of the structural parameters that constitute grammaticalization. They are operationalized to the point of rendering degrees of grammaticalization measurable.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783946234067
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783946234074
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781523743308
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lehmann, Christian, 1948 - Thoughts on grammaticalization Berlin : Language Science Press, 2015 ISBN 9783946234067
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783946234074
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Grammatikalisation
DOI:
10.17169/langsci.b88.98
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Author information:
Lehmann, Christian 1948-
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