Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization
Editors
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 perspective of grammaticalization. In addition to versions of the papers presented at the workshop, the volume contains specially commissioned contributions, some of which offer commentaries on a subset of the other articles. The articles address a number of themes central to grammaticalization studies, such as the role of reanalysis and analogy in grammaticalization, the formal modelling of grammaticalization, and the relationship between formal and functional change, using data from a range of languages, and (in some cases) from particular electronic corpora. The volume will be of specific interest to historical linguists working on grammaticalization, and general linguists working on the interface between synchrony and diachrony.
[Typological Studies in Language, 90] 2010. ix, 306 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 22 February 2010
Published online on 22 February 2010
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Contributors | pp. vii–viii
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Acknowledgements | p. ix
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PrefaceGraeme Trousdale and Elizabeth Closs Traugott | pp. 1–18
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Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: How do they intersect?Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale | pp. 19–44
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Grammaticalization, the clausal hierarchy and semantic bleachingIan Roberts | pp. 45–73
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Grammatical interference: Subject marker for and the phrasal verb particles out and forthHendrik De Smet | pp. 75–104
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Category change in English with and without structural changeDavid Denison | pp. 105–128
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Features in reanalysis and grammaticalizationElly van Gelderen | pp. 129–147
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How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa)Anette Rosenbach | pp. 149–179
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What can synchronic gradience tell us about reanalysis? Verb-first conditionals in written German and SwedishMartin Hilpert | pp. 181–201
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A paradigmatic approach to language and language changeLene Schøsler | pp. 203–220
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Grammaticalization and the it-cleft constructionAmanda L. Patten | pp. 221–243
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Grammaticalization in Chinese: A construction-based accountWalter Bisang | pp. 245–277
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Grammaticalization and models of languageNigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars | pp. 279–299
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Language index | p. 301
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Subject index | pp. 303–306
“The triumph of Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization is in its ability to present conflicting points of view on the issue under discussion in a useful, thought provoking way that ultimately leads to a deep understanding of the subject matter. All of the papers make significant points, and because some of the authors review the work of others in the volume, the reader comes away with a coherent picture of the field that helps to reconcile divergent viewpoints and reveals the underlying consensus behind the different approaches.”
Aya Katz, Inverted A-Inc, in Studies in Language Vol. 34:4 (2010)
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