Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization

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

This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, contains a collection of papers which investigate the relationship between synchronic gradience and the apparent gradualness of linguistic change, largely from the per...

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Other Authors: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Trousdale, Graeme, 1971-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, the Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2010.
Series:Typological studies in language ; v. 90.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammaticalization.
Gradience (Linguistics)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammaticalization
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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