Grammaticalization

Current views and issues

Editors

Katerina Stathi | Free University Berlin

Elke Gehweiler | Free University Berlin

Ekkehard König | Free University Berlin

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This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization research such as the concept of 'grammar' as the endpoint of grammaticalization processes, erosion, (uni)directionality, the relation between grammaticalization and constructions, subjectification, and the relation between grammaticalization and analogy. Other papers shed a critical light on grammaticalization as an explanatory parameter in language change. New case studies of micro-processes of grammaticalization complete the selection. The empirical evidence for (and against) grammaticalization comes from diverse domains: subject control, clitics, reciprocal markers, pronouns and agreement markers, gender markers, auxiliaries, aspectual categories, intensifying adjectives and determiners, and pragmatic markers. The languages covered include English and its varieties, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, French, Slavonic languages, and Turkish. The book will be valuable to scholars working on grammaticalization and language change as well as to those interested in individual languages.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 119] 2010. vii, 379 pp.

Publishing status:

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.119

Table of Contents

Table of contents | pp. v–vi

Preface | p. vii

Introduction

Katerina Stathi, Elke Gehweiler and Ekkehard König | pp. 01–14

part I Basic questions

On some problem areas in grammaticalization studies

Gabriele Diewald | pp. 17–50

Issues in constructional approaches to grammaticalization in English

Graeme Trousdale | pp. 51–72

Reconsidering erosion in grammaticalization: Evidence from cliticization

René Schiering | pp. 73–100

Grammaticalization, subjectification and objectification

Svenja Kranich | pp. 101–122

Degrammaticalization: Three common controversies

Muriel Norde | pp. 123–150

Degrammaticalization and obsolescent morphology: Evidence from Slavonic

David Willis | pp. 151–178

part II Grammaticalization and the explanation of language change

An analogical approach to grammaticalization

Olga Fischer | pp. 181–220

Does grammaticalisation need analogy? Different pathways on the ‘pronoun/agreement marker’-cline

Gunther De Vogelaer | pp. 221–240

What grammaticalisation can reveal about same-subject control

Debra Ziegeler | pp. 241–272

How the Latin neuter pronominal forms became markers of non-individuation in Spanish

Elisabeth Stark and Natascha Pomino | pp. 273–294

part III Case studies of micro-processes of grammaticalization

The Grammaticalization of the German adjectives lauter (and eitel)

Elke Gehweiler | pp. 297–322

Is German gehören an auxiliary? The grammaticalization of the construction gehören + participle II

Katerina Stathi | pp. 323–342

Micro-processes of grammaticalization: The case of Italian l’un l’altro

Letizia Vezzosi | pp. 343–372

List of contributors | pp. 373–374

Index | pp. 375–380

“This volume contains a valuable collection of strong contributions to the field of diachronic linguistics, and more specifically to the area of grammaticalization. In addressing issues of old standing as well as recent ones, it features a wide variety of research topics as well as research methods, such as corpus research, cross-linguistic sampling, field work, and oral and written language testing. Once can be confident that its principle of skilful empirical observation feeding into linguistic theory, and the combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses of language, will spark a range of stimulating new studies in the field.”

An Van Iinden, University of Leuven, in Functions of Language Vol. 19:1 (2012), pag. 135-145

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