Thoughts on grammaticalization

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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...

Author(s): Christian Lehmann
Series: Classics in Linguistics 1
Edition: 3rd
Publisher: Language Science Press
Year: 2015

Language: English
Commentary: freely available on http://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/88
Pages: 0
Tags: Philology Linguistics;grammaticalization;degrammaticalization;reanalysis;renewal;reinforcement;analogy;paradigmatic relation;syntagmatic relation;word order