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This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization. It addresses the hitherto neglected issue of system-internal factors steering grammaticalization and also revisits formal recognition criteria such as Lehmann and Hopper’s parameters of grammaticalization. The articles investigate developments of such phenomena as modal auxiliaries, attitudinal markers, V1-conditionals, nominalizers, and pronouns, using data from a wide range of languages and (in some cases) from diachronic corpora. In the process, they explore finer mechanisms of grammaticalization such as modification of coding means, structural and semantic analogy, changes in frequency and prosody, and shifts in collocational and grammatical distribution. The volume is of particular interest to historical linguists working on grammaticalization, and general linguists working on the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as that between synchrony and diachrony.
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Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research
Typological Studies in Language (TSL) A companion series to the journal Studies in Language. Volumes in this series are functionally and typologically oriented, covering specific topics in language by collecting together data from a wide variety of languages and language typologies.
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William Croft
Paul J. Hopper
Anna Siewierska
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Dan I. Slobin
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Volume 94 Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research Edited by An Van linden, Jean-Christophe Verstraete and Kristin Davidse
Formal Evidence in Grammaticalization Research Edited by
An Van linden Jean-Christophe Verstraete Kristin Davidse University of Leuven
In collaboration with Hubert Cuyckens
John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Formal evidence in grammaticalization research / edited by An Van linden, Jean-Christophe Verstraete, Kristin Davidse; in collaboration with Hubert Cuyckens. p. cm. (Typological Studies in Language, issn 0167-7373 ; v. 94) The present volume finds its origin in the conference “From ideational to interpersonal: Perspectives from grammaticalization” (FITIGRA), held at the University of Leuven from 10 to 12 February 2005. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization--Congresses. I. linden, An Van. II. Verstraete, Jean-Christophe, 1976- III. Davidse, Kristin. P299.G73F676 2010 415--dc22 2010029118 isbn 978 90 272 0675 6 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 8767 0 (Eb)
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