Grammaticalization from a typological perspective /

• Other Authors: Narrog, Heiko (επιμελητής.), Heine, Bernd 1939- (επιμελητής.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
• Series: Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics 31.
• Subjects: Γραμματική, Συγκριτική και γενική > Γραμματικοποίηση; Τυπολογία (Γλωσσολογία)

"This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes--whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories--converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways o...