Usage-based approaches to language change /:

This article opens with a brief discussion of the fundamental issues of usage, structure, grammaticalization and reanalysis and then introduces the key concept of an empty distinction, which is defined as a conventionalized distinction of expression that has lost its former motivation (semantic or n...

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Weitere Verfasser: Coussé, Evie, Mengden, Ferdinand von
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in functional and structural linguistics ; 69.
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Zusammenfassung:This article opens with a brief discussion of the fundamental issues of usage, structure, grammaticalization and reanalysis and then introduces the key concept of an empty distinction, which is defined as a conventionalized distinction of expression that has lost its former motivation (semantic or non-semantic, in particular phonological) as the result of a change. Three change scenarios involving a stage with an empty distinction are considered. The first case study is concerned with the reinterpretation of Old High German umlauted vs. non-umlauted vowel as a marker of number, thus exemplifyi.
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Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027270092
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9789027215796
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