Unity And Diversity In Grammaticalization Scenarios

Author : Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 336 pages
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Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013289765

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Unity and Diversity in Grammaticalization Scenarios by Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov Pdf

The volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium on "Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios" held on 12-14 March 2015 at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The papers, written by leading scholars combining expertise in historical linguistics and grammaticalization research, study variation in grammaticalization scenarios in a variety of language families (Slavic, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, Bantu, Mande, "Khoisan", Siouan, and Mayan). The volume stands out in the vast literature on grammaticalization by focusing on variation in grammaticalization scenarios and areal patterns in grammaticalization. Apart from documenting new grammaticalization paths, the volume makes a methodological contribution as it addresses an important question of how to reconcile universal outcomes of grammaticalization processes with the fact that the input to these processes is language-specific and construction-specific. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783946234999

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Unity and diversity in grammaticalization scenarios by Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov Pdf

The volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium on “Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios” held on 12-14 March 2015 at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The papers, written by leading scholars combining expertise in historical linguistics and grammaticalization research, study variation in grammaticalization scenarios in a variety of language families (Slavic, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, Bantu, Mande, "Khoisan", Siouan, and Mayan). The volume stands out in the vast literature on grammaticalization by focusing on variation in grammaticalization scenarios and areal patterns in grammaticalization. Apart from documenting new grammaticalization paths, the volume makes a methodological contribution as it addresses an important question of how to reconcile universal outcomes of grammaticalization processes with the fact that the input to these processes is language-specific and construction-specific.

Author : Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3961100209

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Unity and Diversity in Grammaticalization Scenarios by Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov Pdf

The volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium on “Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios” held on 12-14 March 2015 at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The papers, written by leading scholars combining expertise in historical linguistics and grammaticalization research, study variation in grammaticalization scenarios in a variety of language families (Slavic, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman, Bantu, Mande, "Khoisan," Siouan, and Mayan). The volume stands out in the vast literature on grammaticalization by focusing on variation in grammaticalization scenarios and areal patterns in grammaticalization. Apart from documenting new grammaticalization paths, the volume makes a methodological contribution as it addresses an important question of how to reconcile universal outcomes of grammaticalization processes with the fact that the input to these processes is language-specific and construction-specific.

Author : Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110560442

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Grammaticalization Scenarios from Europe and Asia by Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov Pdf

This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.

Author : Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110712797

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Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific by Walter Bisang,Andrej Malchukov Pdf

This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.

Author : Tania Kouteva,Bernd Heine,Bo Hong,Haiping Long,Heiko Narrog,Seongha Rhee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107136243

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World Lexicon of Grammaticalization by Tania Kouteva,Bernd Heine,Bo Hong,Haiping Long,Heiko Narrog,Seongha Rhee Pdf

Based on analysis of more than 1,000 languages, this volume reconstructs more than 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world.

Author : Nicole Hober
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110728613

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Grammaticalization and Variation by Nicole Hober Pdf

'Studia typologica' ist der Titel der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift 'Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung/Language Typology and Universals (STUF)'. In den 'Studia typologica' werden Beiträge veröffentlicht, die vielversprechende neue Themen im Bereich der allgemein-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft ansprechen. Insbesondere empirisch gut fundierte Beiträge mit crosslinguistischer Orientierung, die neue Problemstellungen auf innovative Art präsentieren, sind in den 'Studia typologica' willkommen. Die Beiheftereihe unterstützt nachdrücklich Studien zu weniger gut erforschten Sprachen und/oder Phänomenen. Von großem Interesse für die 'Studia typologica' sind auch areal-typologische Arbeiten sowie Beiträge, die sich dem Zusammenspiel von Sprachkontakt und Sprachtypologie widmen. Die 'Studia typologica' sind theorie- und modellübergreifend als Forum für typologisch ausgerichtete Forschungsarbeiten gedacht. Die Beihefte umfassen sowohl Monographien als auch thematisch homogene Sammelbände. Alle eingehenden Manuskripte werden begutachtet (double blind). Die Publikationssprache ist Englisch.

Author : Heiko Narrog,Bernd Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191065088

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Grammaticalization by Heiko Narrog,Bernd Heine Pdf

This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization - the development of new grammatical forms from lexical items, and of further grammatical functions from existing grammatical forms. Grammaticalization has been a vibrant research field in recent years, and has proven effective in explaining a wide range of phenomena; it has even been claimed that the only true language universals are diachronic, and are related to cross-linguistic processes of grammaticalization. The chapters provide a detailed account of the major issues in the field: foundational questions such as directionality, criteria and parameters of grammaticalization, and phases and cycles; the much-debated issue of the motivations behind grammaticalization, including the role of language contact and typological influences; the advantages and disadvantages of different theoretical approaches; and the relationship between grammaticalization and process such as lexicalization, exaptation, and the development of discourse markers. Each chapter offers guidance on further reading, and concludes with study questions to encourage further discussion; there is also a glossary of key terminology in the field. Thanks to its comprehensive approach, the volume will serve as both a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students and a valuable reference work for researchers in the field.

Author : Heiko Narrog,Bernd Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192515353

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Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective by Heiko Narrog,Bernd Heine Pdf

This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways of change are replicated across languages, certain language types and language areas have distinct preferences with respect to what they grammaticalize and how. Previous work has principally addressed this question with specific reference to languages of Southeast and East Asia that do not seem to grammaticalize paradigms of categories in the same manner as Indo-European languages, or form extensive grammaticalization chains. This volume takes a broader approach and proceeds systematically area by area: specialists in the field address the processes of grammaticalization in languages of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, and in creole languages. The studies reveal a number of unique pathways of grammaticalization in each language area, as well as identifying the universal shared features of the phenomenon.

Author : Sylvie Hancil,Tine Breban,José Vicente Lozano
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263438

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New Trends in Grammaticalization and Language Change by Sylvie Hancil,Tine Breban,José Vicente Lozano Pdf

The chapters in this volume present a state of the art of grammaticalization research in the 2010s. They are concerned with the application of new models, such as constructionalization, the ongoing debate about the status and modelling of the development of discourse markers, and reveal a renewed interest in the typological application of grammaticalization and in the cognitive motivations for unidirectionality. The contributors consider data from a wide range of languages, including several that have not or marginally been looked at in terms of grammaticalization: Chinese, Dutch, (varieties of) English, French, German, Japanese, Maltese, Old Saxon, Spanish, and languages of the South Caucasian and Zhuang Tai-Kadai families. The chapters range from theoretical discussions to fine-grained analyses of new historical and comparative language data. This volume will be of interest to linguists studying morphosyntactic changes in a range of languages, and in particular to those interested in models for grammatical change.

Author : Gabriele Diewald,Katja Politt
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103263

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Paradigms regained: Theoretical and empirical arguments for the reassessment of the notion of paradigm by Gabriele Diewald,Katja Politt Pdf

The volume discusses the breadth of applications for an extended notion of paradigm. Paradigms in this sense are not only tools of morphological description but constitute the inherent structure of grammar. Grammatical paradigms are structural sets forming holistic, semiotic structures with an informational value of their own. We argue that as such, paradigms are a part of speaker knowledge and provide necessary structuring for grammaticalization processes. The papers discuss theoretical as well as conceptual questions and explore different domains of grammatical phenomena, ranging from grammaticalization, morphology, and cognitive semantics to modality, aiming to illustrate what the concept of grammatical paradigms can and cannot (yet) explain.

Author : Christian Lehmann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004692701

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Ten Lectures on Grammaticalization by Christian Lehmann Pdf

On the basis of analyzed examples from many languages, basic concepts of grammaticalization theory are explained. Grammaticalization is delimited against other types of variation and change. Degrees of grammaticalization are assessed by well-defined criteria and parameters. Many well-documented cases from different functional domains are analyzed in depth. Issues of directionality are settled on a theoretical basis. The cognitive bases of grammaticalization are identified.

Author : Guglielmo Inglese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004432307

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The Hittite Middle Voice by Guglielmo Inglese Pdf

In this book, Inglese offers a new description of the middle voice in Hittite, both from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective. The analysis is based on a corpus of original Hittite texts and is framed within current trends in linguistic typology.

Author : Rosanna Benacchio,Alessio Muro,Svetlana Slavkova
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788864536972

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The role of prefixes in the formation of aspectuality by Rosanna Benacchio,Alessio Muro,Svetlana Slavkova Pdf

Author : Chiara Zanchi
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823301257

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Multiple Preverbs in Ancient Indo-European Languages by Chiara Zanchi Pdf

The book investigates multiple preverbs (PVs) in some ancient IE languages (Vedic, Homeric Greek, Old Church Slavic, and Old Irish). After an introduction, it opens with the theoretical framework and a typologically-oriented overview of PVs. It then gives quantitative data about multiple PV composites and carries out philological, formal, semantic, and syntactic analyses on them. The comparison among these languages suggests that a process of accumulation lies behind multiple PV composites. Also, PV ordering is explained by different factors: semantic solidarity between PVs and verbs PVs tendency to be specified by event participants, PVs etymologies, influence from other languages. The book also contributes to casting light on the reasons for PVs grammaticalization and lexicalization. These are two distinct reanalyses triggered by the same factor, i.e. the mentioned semantic solidarity, which makes PVs be felt as redundant. They are thus reassigned salient pieces of information as actional markers (grammaticalization) or reinterpreted as part of the verb (lexicalization).