Author : Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen,Mar Garachana
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783039215768
Studies in Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Grammaticalization, Refunctionalization and Beyond by Dorien Nieuwenhuijsen,Mar Garachana Pdf
The present volume examines the usefulness of a particular set of concepts and processes of change studying their applicability to a range of linguistic changes in Spanish and Latin that cannot be easily or can only be partially accounted for within the framework of grammaticalization. Rather than challenging the insights of grammaticalization theory, the different contributions to this monograph demonstrate that exaptation, capitalization, refunctionalization and adfunctionalization, as well as changes motivated by rhetorical guidelines, constitute interesting and valuable notions that allow for a better understanding of specific language changes in Spanish and, by extension, of language change in general.