Grammaticalization Of The Complex Sentence

Author : Zygmunt Frajzyngier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027281999

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Grammaticalization of the Complex Sentence by Zygmunt Frajzyngier Pdf

The general objective of the study is systematic examination of the processes involved in the formation and evolution of complex sentence constructions in a group of genetically related languages. The Chadic language group, at about 140 languages, constitutes the largest and most diversified branch of the Afroasiatic family. One of the findings of the present work is that languages starting from the same base may develop quite different morphological and syntactic structures. With respect to issues of general linguistic interest, the book deals with motivations for grammaticalization: It is proposed that one of the most important motivations is satisfaction of the principle of well formedness, that is, that every element in an utterance must have its role transparent to the hearer either by inherent lexical properties or by grammatical means. In the present work both aspects of grammaticalization, viz. the emergence of grammatical constructions and the emergence of grammatical morphemes, are given equal weight. In addition to semantic metaphor and metonymy as mechanisms in the processes of grammaticalization, the present work develops the notion of semiotic metonymy, whereby a part of a sign performs the function of the sign. It is shown that semiotic metonymy plays an important role in the grammaticalization of grammatical morphemes and constructions into other morphemes and constructions. The book also shows that unindirectionality is not a governing principle with respect to the development of grammatical morphemes into other grammatical morphemes; rather, there is considerable evidence and theoretical justification for the bidirectionality principle.

Author : Philip Baldi,Pierluigi Cuzzolin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110253412

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Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology by Philip Baldi,Pierluigi Cuzzolin Pdf

New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax: Complex Sentences, Grammaticalization, Typology is the fourth in a set of four volumes dealing with the long-term evolution of Latin syntax, roughly from the 4th century BCE up to the 6th century CE. As in the other volumes, the non-technical style and extensive illustration with classical examples makes the content readable and immediately useful to the widest audience.

Author : Joan L. Bybee,Michael Noonan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027225850

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Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse by Joan L. Bybee,Michael Noonan Pdf

The papers in this volume in honor of Sandra Annear Thompson deal with complex sentences, an important topic in Thompson's career. The focus of the contributions is on the ways in which the grammatical properties of complex sentences are shaped by the communicative context in which they are produced, an approach to grammatical analysis that Thompson pioneered and developed in the course of her distinguished career.

Author : Sebastian Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134237272

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Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions by Sebastian Hoffmann Pdf

What is a grammatical unit? How does grammatical structure evolve? How can we best investigate the mental representation of grammar? What is the connection between language use and language structure? This book aims to help answer such questions by presenting a detailed analysis of English complex prepositions (e.g. in spite of or with respect to) on the basis of large amounts of authentic language data dating from the Middle Ages until today.

Author : Richard A. Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCAL:B4320439

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English Complex Sentences by Richard A. Hudson Pdf

Author : Paul Portner,Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110587319

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Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure by Paul Portner,Claudia Maienborn,Klaus von Heusinger Pdf

Read this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.

Author : Daniel Olmen,Hubert Cuyckens,Lobke Ghesquière
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110489767

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Aspects of Grammaticalization by Daniel Olmen,Hubert Cuyckens,Lobke Ghesquière Pdf

This volume advances our understanding of two highly debated aspects of grammaticalization: its relation to (inter)subjectification and its directionality. These aspects are studied with respect to such phenomena as auxiliaries, discourse markers, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns. Bringing together a wide range of languages, the collection provides insight into the crucial dimensions of grammaticalization research.

Author : Ilse Wischer,Gabriele Diewald
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229554

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New Reflections on Grammaticalization by Ilse Wischer,Gabriele Diewald Pdf

The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direction of grammaticalization studies. The volume focuses on issues such as grammaticalization and lexicalization; the unidirectionality hypothesis; the issue of the relevance of contexts for grammaticalization; the description of grammaticalization paths. Much of the current work concentrates on such categories, as discourse markers, honorifics or classifiers, which have not previously been central to works on grammaticalization. Other studies take a new perspective on known grammaticalization paths by applying concepts adopted from other linguistic fields, such as prototype theory, morphocentricity, or by discussing their findings from a comparative or typological angle, presenting data from a large number of languages, often based on extensive empirical investigations of written and spoken text corpora.

Author : Manik Joshi
Publisher : Manik Joshi
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences: English Sentence Forms by Manik Joshi Pdf

REVISED EDITION -- FEB 20, 2016 -- Sentence forms in English language - simple sentence, compound sentence, complex sentence, compound-complex sentence | phrases and clauses | independent or principal clause (main clause), dependent or subordinate clause | list of important coordinators and transitional expressions (transitional words or phrases) for compound sentences | list of important subordinators for complex sentences | double and multiple sentences | definition and examples of simple, compound and complex sentences

Author : Elena Seoane,María José López-Couso
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290212

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Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization by Elena Seoane,María José López-Couso Pdf

This volume and its companion oneRethinking grammaticalization: New perspectives offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. The overall aim of the book is to enrich our understanding of what grammaticalization entails via detailed case studies in combination with theoretical and methodological discussions. Some of the theoretical issues discussed in the sixteen articles included in the volume are the nature of grammaticalization and related processes such as anti-, re- and degrammaticalization, the relationship between grammaticalization and lexicalization, the role of frequency in grammaticalization and the interplay between information structure and grammaticalization. Other topics covered are the grammaticalization of composite predicates in English, the emergence of modal particles in German and particle clusters in Dutch and the grammaticalization of various modal auxiliaries in Spanish and in Swedish.

Author : Anna Giacalone Ramat,Paul J. Hopper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275578

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The Limits of Grammaticalization by Anna Giacalone Ramat,Paul J. Hopper Pdf

The earliest use of the term “grammaticalization” was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in “he keeps bees”) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in “he keeps looking at me”). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a downshift from a major to a minor category, have generally been agreed to come under the heading of grammaticalization. But other changes that equally contribute to new grammatical forms do not involve this kind of fading. In recent years, a debate has arisen over how to constrain the term theoretically. Is grammaticalization to be distinguished from “lexicalization”, the creation and fixing of new words out of older patterns of compounding? If so, how is the line to be drawn between a form that is grammatical and one that is lexical? Should the term “grammaticalization” be extended to the study of the origins of grammatical constructions in general? If so, it will have to include broader issues such as word order change and the reanalysis of phrases. What principles govern these processes? Is grammaticalization a unidirectional event, or can change occur in the reverse direction? The authors of the papers in this volume approach these important questions from a variety of data types, including historical texts, creoles, and a typologically broad sample of modern and ancient languages.

Author : Rena Torres Cacoullos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027298706

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Grammaticization, Synchronic Variation, and Language Contact by Rena Torres Cacoullos Pdf

This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases. Formal reduction results in the emergence of auxilliary-plus-gerund sequences as fused units. Semantically, the constructions originate as spatial expressions; their grammaticization involves gradual loss of locative features of meaning. Semantic generalization among parallel evolutionary paths results in the competition among different constructions in the domain of progressive aspect. Patterns of synchronic variation follow from both the retention of meaning differences and the routinization of frequent collocations, as well as sociolinguistic factors. Register considerations turn out to be crucial in evaluating the effects of language contact. Purported changes in Spanish — English bilingual varieties are largely a feature of oral, informal language rather than a manifestation of convergence.

Author : Christian Lehmann
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234067

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Thoughts on grammaticalization by Christian Lehmann Pdf

"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.

Author : Christian Lehmann
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783946234050

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Thoughts on grammaticalization by Christian Lehmann Pdf

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. The present edition contains corrections of the 1995 edition.

Author : Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Bernd Heine
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228956

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Approaches to Grammaticalization by Elizabeth Closs Traugott,Bernd Heine Pdf

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 particular attention to morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic issues. The papers in Volume I are divided into two sections, the first concerned with general method, and the second with issues of directionality. Those in Volume II are divided into five sections: verbal structure, argument structure, subordination, modality, and multiple paths of grammaticalization.