Grammaticalization as economy / / Elly van Gelderen

• Autore: Gelderen Elly van
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins Pub., 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Grammaticalization; Economy (Linguistics); Linguistic change
• Classificazione: ET 710
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Grammaticalization as Economy -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes for the reader -- List of tables -- Part I -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Part II -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Part III -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Part IV -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides much detail on the changes involving the grammaticalization of personal and relative pronouns, topicalized nominals, complementizers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers. It accounts for these changes in terms of two structural economy principles. Head Preference expresses that single words, i.e. heads, are used to build structures rather than full phrases, and Late Merge states that waiting as late as possible to merge, i.e. be added to the structure, is preferred over movement. The book also discusses grammar-external processes (e.g. prescriptivist rules) that inhibit change, and innovations that replenish the grammaticalized element. Most of the changes involve the (extended) CP and IP: as elements grammaticalize clause boundaries disappear. Cross-linguistic differences exist as to whether the CP, IP, and VP are all present and split and this is formulated as the Layer Principle. Changes involving the CP are typically brought about by Head Preference, whereas those involving the IP and VP by Late Merge.
• Titolo autorizzato: Grammaticalization as economy
• ISBN: 9786612160332; 9781282160330; 1282160338; 9789027295323; 9027295328
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975169703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Linguistik aktuell ; ; Bd. 71.