Grammaticalization
Grammaticalization
Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Stanford University, California
Grammaticalization refers to the change whereby lexical terms and constructions serve grammatical functions in certain linguistic contexts and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions. Paul Hopper and Elizabeth Traugott synthesize research from several areas of linguistics in this revised introduction to the subject. The book includes substantial updates on theoretical and methodological issues that have arisen in the decade since the first edition, as well as a significantly expanded bibliography. Particular attention is paid to recent debates over directionality in change and the role of grammaticalization in creolization.
First Edition Hb (1993): 0-521-36655-0
First Edition Pb (1993): 0-521-36684-4
- Introduces grammaticalization as a general topic while also focusing on developments and advances in the field over the past ten years - contains citations as recent as 2002
- Explains and engages all the serious controversies and debates that have taken place in the field since the first edition appeared in 1993
- A valuable and stimulating textbook for all linguists interested in the development of grammatical forms
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"The book is a lucid and highly readable discussion of grammaticalization...an excellent treatment of a central aspect of language." Language
Product details
August 2003Paperback
9780521804219
300 pages
229 × 152 × 20 mm
0.43kg
4 b/w illus. 16 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface to the second edition and acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Some preliminaries
- 2. The history of grammaticalization
- 3. Reanalysis
- 4. Pragmatic factor
- 5. The hypothesis of unidirectionality
- 6. Clause-internal morphological changes
- 7. Grammaticalization across clauses
- 8. Grammaticalization in situations of extreme language contact
- 9. Summary and suggestions for further work
- References
- Index of names
- Index of languages
- General index.
