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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961684403321

Titolo

Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization / / edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, Pa., : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2010

ISBN

9786612558658

9781282558656

128255865X

9789027288448

9027288445

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 306 p

Collana

Typological studies in language, , 0167-7373 ; ; v. 90

Classificazione

ET 750

Altri autori (Persone)

TraugottElizabeth Closs

TrousdaleGraeme <1971->

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammaticalization

Gradience (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface / Graeme Trousdale and Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: how do they intersect? / Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale -- Grammaticalization, the clausal hierarchy and semantic bleaching / Ian Roberts -- Grammatical interference: subject marker for and the phrasal verb particles out and forth / Hendrik De Smet -- Category change in English with and without structural change / David Denison -- Features in reanalysis and grammaticalization / Elly van Gelderen -- How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa) / Anette Rosenbach -- What can synchronic gradience tell us about reanalysis? Verb-first conditionals in written German and Swedish / Martin Hilpert -- A paradigmatic approach to language and language change / Lene Schøsler -- Grammaticalization and the it-cleft construction / Amanda L. Patten -- Grammaticalization in Chinese: a construction-based account / Walter Bisang -- Grammaticalization and models of language / Nigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars -- Language index -- Subject index.



Sommario/riassunto

The focus of this paper is the role of theory for the understanding of linguistic change. We argue that 'formal' and 'functional' should not be seen as two incompatible ways of viewing linguistic data, but as necessary aspects of any linguistic theory. We consider how theories which are formal, but which incorporate functional information can advance our understanding of linguistic change, for instance Dynamic Syntax and Lexical-Functional Grammar, especially when combined with Stochastic OT. We consider analyses which show that formal semantics can provide more insightful accounts of certain changes than purely syntactic analyses such as those proposed in some papers in this volume. We compare approaches particularly with respect to analyses of gradience and the directionality of grammaticalization.