Studies on grammaticalization:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin Mouton de Gruyter c2008
Series:Trends in linguistics 205
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Grammaticalization theory has played a major role in the developments in language typology and functional linguistics during the last three decades. The contributions in this book discuss the major theoretical issues of grammaticalization theory, illustrate the current trends in this field, and present evidence for grammaticalization from several familiar as well as little studied languages
Frontmatter; Contents; Glosses; Introduction; Unidirectionality of grammaticalization in an evolutionary perspective; Grammaticalization and sets of form-functionpairs: Encoding spatial concepts in Greek; Grammaticalization of Korean numeral classifiers; Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in N©¡náfwê; On the grammaticalization of the German preposition von as a genitive equivalent; The grammaticalization of agreement in Chibchan; Decay and loss of applicatives in Siouan languages: A grammaticalization perspective; Reciprocals in the making: multiple grammaticalization in Manambu
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 324 p.)
ISBN:1283398249
3110205823
3110211769
9781283398244
9783110205824
9783110211764

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