The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance
Edited by Ulrich Detges and Richard Waltereit
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 293] 2008. vi, 252 pp.
Ulrich Detges
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ulrich Detges plays a role.
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Subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 Future markers in Western Romance: Cyclic change, synchronic variation and diachronic competition The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt (ed.), pp. 289–314 | Article
In this article, which examines the cyclic evolution of future markers in Western Romance (mainly French and Spanish), I make use of the “satellite model” in the version proposed by Koch and Oesterreicher (1996) to capture the complex interplay between functional change, synchronic variation and… read more
2015 Review of Degand, Cornillie & Pietrandrea (2013): Discourse Markers and Modal Particles. Categorization and Description Sensory Perceptions in Language and Cognition, Caballero, Rosario and Carita Paradis (eds.), pp. 132–141 | Review
2013 First person strong pronouns in spoken French: A case study in cliticization Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages, Kragh, Kirsten Jeppesen and Jan Lindschouw (eds.), pp. 33–48 | Article
In this article it will be argued that both from a syntactic and a prosodic point of view, the so-called disjoined or tonic pronouns of Modern Spoken French are neither necessarily disjoined nor stressed elements any more. Based on syntactic and phonetic corpus data, I will show that especially the… read more
2009 How useful is case morphology? The loss of the Old French two-case system within a theory of Preferred Argument structure The Role of Semantic, Pragmatic, and Discourse Factors in the Development of Case, Barðdal, Jóhanna and Shobhana L. Chelliah (eds.), pp. 93–120 | Article
This paper discusses the loss of the Old French two-case system within the theory of Preferred Argument Structure (Du Bois 2003, 1987). It will be shown that the chronology of this process followed a hierarchy of relative frequency, which in turn was driven by discourse preferences. Apart from… read more
2008 Introduction The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance, Detges, Ulrich and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Miscellaneous
2008 Syntactic change from within and from without syntax: A usage-based analysis The Paradox of Grammatical Change: Perspectives from Romance, Detges, Ulrich and Richard Waltereit (eds.), pp. 13–30 | Article
This article presents a critical discussion of Inertia Theory (Longobardi 2001; 2003), according to which syntactic change never originates in syntax itself. We argue that syntactic change originates in language usage, which includes the possibility that it may be triggered by genuinely syntactic… read more
2004 How cognitive is grammaticalization? The history of the Catalan perfet perifràstic Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization, Fischer, Olga, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 211–227 | Article
2000 Two types of restructuring in French creoles: A cognitive approach to the genesis of tens markers Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.), pp. 135 ff. | Article
2000 Time and truth: The grammaticalization of resultatives and perfects within a theory of subjectification Studies in Language 24:2, pp. 345–377 | Article
This paper is concerned with the “invisible hand” behind the polygenetic pathways of semantic change in grammaticalization. A comparison between Old English habban + Past Participle and Spanish tener + Past Participle brings to light specific discourse strategies which speakers use resultatives for. read more