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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812973503321

Titolo

Shared grammaticalization : with special focus on the Transeurasian languages / / edited by Martine Robbeets, Hubert Cuyckens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013

ISBN

1-299-28376-4

90-272-7214-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Studies in language companion series, , 0165-7763 ; ; v. 132

Altri autori (Persone)

RobbeetsMartine Irma

CuyckensH

Disciplina

494

Soggetti

Altaic languages - Grammaticalization

Altaic languages - Grammar, Comparative

Altaic languages - Morphology

Altaic languages - Syntax

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 and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Shared grammaticalization : typological and theoretical aspects -- pt. II. Shared grammaticalization in the Transeurasian languages -- pt. III. Shared grammaticalization in the Altaic languages -- pt. IV. Shared grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean.

Sommario/riassunto

Double-negative periphrastic litotes have been for nearly three centuries the usual way to express necessitive predicates in Japanese and Korean. These constructions do not, however, go back to the earliest stages of these languages and should not be invoked as evidence of a possible common origin. But Korean also has a double-affirmative periphrastic necessitive construction. Premodern Japanese has no overt counterpart to it, but it does have an auxiliary adjective that expresses necessity. I argue that this auxiliary was a grammaticalization of a periphrastic analogous in form and meaning to