Different Slants on Grammaticalization

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This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of grammars. In this volume, grammaticalization is dealt with diachronically, synchronically and as a by-product of dialogic interaction. Another key feature of this book is language diversity; as it includes studies on language families ranging from Niger-Congo, Koreanic, Japonic, Sino-Tibetan to Germanic and Romance. The novel aspects of grammaticalization addressed are new slants on the fundamental debate about grammaticalization as expansion vs reduction; the grammatical formation of ideophones; the semantic domain of fear as a source and a trigger of grammatical change, and many other aspects of semantic and morphosyntactic development.

Author(s): Sylvie Hancil; Vittorio Tantucci
Edition: e-book
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year: 2023

Language: English
Pages: 284
Tags: Historical linguistics; Theoretical linguistics

Different Slants on Grammaticalization
Editorial page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of contents

Introduction
1. Grammaticalization
2. Defining grammaticalization and grammar
3. Wide vs narrow views of grammaticalization
4. Recent issues in grammaticalization theory
5. The present volume
References

Section I Diachronic approaches
Chapter 1 From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb
1. Introduction
2. A short history of yori
3. Preceding studies on yori and language contact
3.1 Preceding studies on yori
3.1.1 Hida (1992, 2019)
3.1.2 Morioka (1999)
3.2 Language contact research on Japanese
4. Corpora
5. Survey results and discussion
5.1 Gradualness of grammaticalization
5.2 Collocational sequences that preserve the earlier ablative function of yori
5.2.1 Yori-collocations with particles
5.2.2 Yori co-occurring with sarani ‘moreover’
5.3 A collocational sequence that reflects the newer adverbial function of yori
5.4 Language contact and ‘extravagance’
5.5 Degrammaticalization and the emergence of the comparative adverb yori
6. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgments
Glossing conventions
Division of the history of Japanese in this study
References
Dictionaries
Corpora
Appendix. The major collocational patterns with yori (based on Shibasaki in press)
Chapter 2 From fear to reason
1. From fear to reason cross-linguistically
1.2 Grammaticalization as dependency vs expansion
1.3 Affectives in Mandarin
1.4 Apprehensives in Mandarin
2. Data retrieval
3. Analysis
4. Conclusions
References
Chapter 3 -maɾa in Mara
1. Introduction
2. On Mara
3. On -maɾa
4. The two auxiliary verb constructions with -maɾa
4.1 Expressing already
4.2 Expressing not yet
5. The grammaticalization of the -maɾa AVCs
5.1 ALREADY
5.1.1 Relaxation of selectional restrictions and expansion in collocational range
5.1.2 Loss of verbal properties and syntactic variability
5.1.3 Shift in anaphoric referencing
5.1.4 Loss of phonological substance
5.2 NOT YET
6. Old forms and cycles of change
6.1 The original formal means for expressing already/not yet
6.2 Diachronic cycle(s) of phasal polarity
6.3 The PhP cycle for -maɾa in Mara
7. Summary and conclusions
Acknowledgements
References

Section II Synchronic approaches
Chapter 4 Tracking Jespersen’s cycle in Veronese and Bresciano
1. Introduction
1.1 The expression of sentential negation
1.2 Grammaticalization of mica in standard and local varieties
1.2.1 Mica in Modern and Old Italian
1.2.2 Mica in Italo-Romance varieties
2. Methodology and research questions
3. Data analysis
Indicative
Protasis
Imperatives
Subjunctive subordinates
Discussion and conclusion
List of abbreviations
Note to the glossing system
References
Appendix
Chapter 5 Could be, might be, maybe
1. Introduction
2. Epistemic phrases and adverbials
3. Epistemic phrases/adverbials in an experimental study
3.1 Design and participants
3.2 Results
3.2.2 Comparing shadowed responses with input forms
3.2.3 Durations of shadowed items
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 The final-appendage construction in Japanese and Korean
1. Introduction
2. Data
3. Results
3.1 Japanese final-appendage structures and their Korean translations
3.2 Korean translations of Japanese utterances with the final-appendage construction
3.3 Distribution by grammatical function
4. Post-predicative differences in form and frequency
4.1 Adnominals
4.2 Nominals
4.3 Particle-less pronouns
4.4 Vocative phrases
4.5 Summary
5. Constructional entrenchment of final-appendage structures
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Keys to abbreviations
References
Data sources
Chapter 7 New perspectives on phonological erosion as an aspect of grammaticalization
1. Introduction
2. The loss of phonological bulk
3. Phonological loss, compensation, and the efficiency constant
4. Accelerated and uncompensated loss as an aspect of right-sizing
5. Right-sizing extended to cases of grammaticalization
6. Right-sizing as a complex adaptive process with stochastic effect
7. Conclusions
References

Section III Interactive contexts
Chapter 8 On the development of discourse markers from elliptical structures
1. Introduction
2. Preliminaries
3. Data and EDM functions
3.1 DM functional domains
3.2 Interaction management functions of EDMs
3.2.1 Pause-filling
3.3 Information management
3.3.1 Disregard
3.3.2 Mirativity
3.3.3 Mitigation/deflection
3.3.4 Uncertainty
3.4 Interlocutor management
3.4.1 Feigned surprise
3.4.2 Challenge/protest
3.4.3 Discontent
3.4.4 Reproach
3.4.5 Sarcasm
3.4.6 Hesitance/reluctance
3.4.7 Upcoming disalignment
4. Historical development
4.1 Mwusun ‘what kind of’
4.2 Ilen ‘this kind of’
4.3 Celen ‘that kind of’
4.4 Weyn ‘what kind of’
4.5 Weynkel ‘what kind of a thing’
4.6 Mwel ‘what’
5. Discussion
5.1 Significance of elliptical structure
5.2 DM characteristics
5.2.1 Morphosyntax
5.2.2 Semantics
5.2.3 Phonology
5.2.4 Pragmatics
5.3 Source characteristics
6. Summary and conclusion
Funding
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 9 On the grammaticalization of ideophones
1. Introduction
1.1 On ideophones
1.2 Definition
1.3 Grammatical features
2. Ideophones as interactives
2.1 Interactives
2.2 Problems
3. Grammaticalization
3.1 Diagnostics
3.2 Ideophones in Siwu
3.3 Ideophones in Xhosa
3.3.1 The quotative construction
3.3.2 The modifier construction
3.4 Discussion
4. Conclusions
Abbreviations
References
Chapter 10 An emerging final particle
1. Introduction
2. Data
3. quoi in dictionaries
4. Hopper’s (1991) five principles of grammaticalization
4.1 Principle 1
4.2 Principle 2
4.3 Principle 3
4.4 Principle 4
4.5 Principle 5
5. Grammaticalization of the particle and beyond
6. Conclusion
References
Dictionaries
Corpus

Index