New directions in grammaticalization research / / edited by Andrew D.M. Smith, University of Stirling ; Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh ; Richard Waltereit, Newcastle University

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459726203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 90-272-6904-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Collana: Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS), , 0165-7763 ; ; Volume 166
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetti: Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammatization; Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammatical categories; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: New Directions in Grammaticalization Research; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; References; The grammaticalization of headshakes; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic ingredients: Non-manuals and grammaticalization; 2.1 Non-manuals in sign languages; 2.2 Grammaticalization in sign languages; 3. Headshakes in spoken discourse; 3.1 On the origin of the headshake (and head nod); 3.2 Uses of headshakes; 4. Headshakes in signed discourse; 4.1 Gestural headshakes; 4.2 Linguistic headshakes; 4.2.1 Manual dominant systems; 4.2.2 Non-manual dominant systems; 4.2.3 Summary; 5. From gesture to grammar5.1 A typological perspective on sign language negation; 5.1.1 Typology of negation; 5.1.2 Particles and affixes in manual vs. non-manual dominant systems; 5.2 Headshake in Jespersen's Cycle; 5.2.1 Jespersen's Cycle; 5.2.2 From manual dominant to non-manual dominant system; 6. Conclusion; Appendix: Notational conventions; References; The Swedish connective så att 'so that'; 1. Background and aims; 2. The syntax and semantics of så att; 3. Theory; ; 4. Data and method; 5. Corpus-based analysis; 6. Conclusions and future prospects; Acknowledgements; References; The lexicalization-grammaticalization-pragmaticalization interface1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries - discourse markers; 2.1 Mental state predicates of the I think-type; 3. Case study - Mainland Scandinavian jeg tror; 3.1 Sources and method; 3.2 Results; 3.2.1 Qualificational and non-qualificational meanings; 3.2.2 Person; 3.2.3 That-deletion and that-complementation; 3.2.4 Position; 3.2.5 Overall results; 4. Analysis; 4.1 Composite changes; 4.2 Definitions; 4.3 The lexicalization-grammaticalization-pragmaticalization interface; 5. Summary and conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Evidential/epistemic markers of the type verb + complementizer1. Introduction; 2. Romance developments of the type Verb+C; 2.1 Spanish dizque; 2.1.1 The early history of dizque; 2.1.2 Latin American Spanish dizque; 3. Like-parentheticals in contemporary American English; 4. Romance Verb+C combinations and English like-parentheticals as cases of grammaticalization; 5. Some theoretical implications; 5.1 On the predictive power of grammaticalization; 5.2 On the developmental relation between clausal parentheticals and complex clause structures; 6. Closing remarks; Corpora used; References; The Neg-Raising Phenomenon as a product of grammaticalization1. Introduction; 2. Previous approaches to NRP; 2.1 Transformational approach; 2.2 Logical approach; 2.3 Pragmatic approach; 3. NRP as grammaticalization; 3.1 Grammaticalization of parenthetical expressions; 3.2 NRP as grammaticalized expressions; 4. Delimitation of NRP predicates; 4.1 Relation between NRP and parentheticals; 4.2 Characterization of NRP predicates; 4.3 Japanese case; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Periphery of utterances and (inter)subjectification in Modern Japanese; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 2.1 (Inter)subjectification and periphery