Connecting Grammaticalisation

2011 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Jens Nørgård-Sørensen
Release : 2011
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Connecting Grammaticalisation written by Jens Nørgård-Sørensen. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. The book introduces the concept of connecting grammaticalisation to describe the formation, restructuring and dismantling of such complex paradigms. It offers a broad general discussion of theoretical issues and three case studies

Connecting Grammaticalisation

2011-12-21 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Jens Nørgård-Sørensen
Release : 2011-12-21
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book Connecting Grammaticalisation written by Jens Nørgård-Sørensen. This book was released on 2011-12-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word order), constructional syntax and other grammatical subsystems is their paradigmatic organisation. The traditional concept of an inflexional paradigm is generalised as the structuring principle of grammar. Grammatical change involves paradigmatic restructuring, and in the process of grammatical change morphological, topological and constructional paradigms often connect to form complex paradigms. The book introduces the concept of connecting grammaticalisation to describe the formation, restructuring and dismantling of such complex paradigms. Drawing primarily on data from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages, the book offers both a broad general discussion of theoretical issues (part one) and three case studies (part two).

World Lexicon of Grammaticalization

2019-08-08 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Tania Kouteva
Release : 2019-08-08
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Download or read book World Lexicon of Grammaticalization written by Tania Kouteva. This book was released on 2019-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Diachronic Construction Grammar

2015-07-15 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Jóhanna Barðdal
Release : 2015-07-15
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Download or read book Diachronic Construction Grammar written by Jóhanna Barðdal. This book was released on 2015-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new constructions arise, how should competition in diachronic variation be accounted for, how do constructions fall into disuse, and how do constructions change in general, formally and/or semantically, and with what implications for the language system as a whole? This volume offers a broad introduction to the confluence of Construction Grammar and historical syntax, and also detailed case studies of various instances of syntactic change modeled within Construction Grammar. The volume demonstrates that Construction Grammar as a theory is particularly well suited for modeling historical changes in morphosyntax, and it also documents challenging new phenomena that require a theoretical account within any competing framework of syntactic change.

Grammar – Discourse – Context

2019-12-20 Language Arts & Disciplines

Author : Kristin Bech
Release : 2019-12-20
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Download or read book Grammar – Discourse – Context written by Kristin Bech. This book was released on 2019-12-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collected volume brings together a wide array of international linguists working on diachronic language change with a specific focus on the history of English, who work within usage-based frameworks and investigate processes of grammatical change in context. Although usage-based linguistics emphasizes the centrality of the discourse context for language usage and cognition, this insight has not been fully integrated into the investigation of processes of grammatical variation and change. The structuralist heritage as well as corpus linguistic methodologies have favoured de-contextualized analytical perspectives on contemporary and historical language data and on the mechanisms and processes guiding grammatical variation and change. From a range of different perspectives, the contributions to this volume take up the challenge of contextualization in the investigation of grammatical variation and change in different stages of English language history and discuss central theoretical notions such as gradable grammaticality, motivation in hypervariation, and hypercharacterization. The book will be relevant to students and linguists working in the field of diachronic and variational linguistics and English language history.

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