UID:
almahu_9947381929802882
Format:
1 online resource (361 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-36002-0
,
9786613360021
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90-272-8413-X
Series Statement:
Studies in functional and structural linguistics (SFSL), v. 65
Content:
This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word order), constructional syntax and other grammatical subsystems is their paradigmatic organisation. The traditional concept of an inflexional paradigm is generalised as the structuring principle of grammar. Grammatical change involves paradigmatic restructuring, and in the process of grammatical change m
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
pt. 1. Grammaticalisation and paradigmatic structure -- pt. 2. Case studies.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-1575-8
Language:
English
