Grammaticalization /

• Main Author: Narrog, Heiko (συγγραφέας)
• Other Authors: Heine, Bernd 1939- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Series: Oxford linguistics
• Subjects: Γραμματική, Συγκριτική και γενική > Γραμματικοποίηση

"This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization - the development of new grammatical forms from lexical items, and of further grammatical functions from existing grammatical forms. Grammaticalizat...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Criteria, parameters, and other variables
• Four parameters of grammaticalization
• Directionality of semantic change in grammaticalization
• Steps and phases of grammaticalization
• What drives grammaticalization? Mechanisms and motivations
• Grammaticalization in language contact
• Grammaticalization and language typology
• Theory-specific approaches
• Beyond grammaticalization
• Discourse markers
• Summary and conclusion.