Corpus approaches to grammaticalization in English:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2004
Series:Studies in corpus linguistics v. 13
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:"Contains revised versions of five out of six papers presented at the international symposium ... organized by Hans Lindquist at Växjö University, Sweden, in 20-22 April 2001"--Preface
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Three perspectives on grammaticalization : lexico-grammar, corpora and historical sociolinguistics - Terttu Nevalainen -- - Have to, gotta, must : grammaticalisation, variation and specialization in English deontic modality - Sali Tagliamonte -- - The semantic path from modality to aspect : be able to in a cross-linguistic perspective - Karin Aijmer -- - The passival and the progressive passive : a case study of layering in the English aspect and voice systems - Marianne Hundt -- - Corpus linguistics and grammaticalisation theory : statistics, frequencies, and beyond - Christian Mair -- - Grammaticalisation from side to side : on the development of beside(s) - Matti Rissanen -- - Are low-frequency complex prepositions grammaticalized? : on the limits of corpus data, and the importance of intuition - Sebastian Hoffmann -- - Life after degrammaticalisation : plural be - Laura Wright -- - Subject clitics in English : a case of degrammaticalization? - Laurel J. Brinton
Grammaticalization is an important concept in general and typological linguistics and a prominent type of explanation in historical linguistics. For historical corpus linguists, grammaticalization theory provides a frame of orientation in their effort to analyze and systematize a fast-accumulating mass of data. Students of grammaticalization have become increasingly aware of the potential of existing corpora and established corpus-linguistic methodology for their work. This book continues and develops the dialogue between the two fields. All the contributions are based on extensive use of vari
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 264 pages)
ISBN:1423766350
9027295484
9781423766353
9789027295484

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