Pathways of change: grammaticalization in English
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam [Netherlands] John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2000
Schriftenreihe:Studies in language companion series v. 53
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
PATHWAYS OF CHANGE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Preface; Introduction; A lovely little example: Wordorder options andcategory shift in the premodifying string; The grammaticalization of the verb 'pray'; The grammaticalization of concessive markers in Early Modern English; Combining English auxiliaries; Grammaticalisation: Unidirectional, non-reversable? The case of to before the infinitive in English; Remarks on the de-grammaticalisation of infinitival to in present-day American English; The role of person and position in Old English
There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one of the best-documented languages in the world, English. Pathways of Change contains discussion of new data and provides theoretical lead articles based on these data that will help sharpen the theoretical aspects involved, such as the definition and the logical connection of the component processes of
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ISBN:0585463301
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9780585463308
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