| Title:
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GRAMMATICALIZATION - THEORY AND DATA
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| By: |
Sylvie Hancil (Editor), Ekkehard Konig (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£83.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9027259275 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789027259271 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
15 September, 2014 |
| Series: |
Studies in Language Companion Series 162 |
| Pages: |
301 |
| Description: |
"The present volume owes its existence to one of these conferences, viz. the International Conference on Grammaticalization Theory and Data, held at the University of Rouen in May 10-11, 2012 [which is the first quadriennial conference]. The purpose of this conference was to advance our knowledge on this type of language change through further general and theoretical explorations and through further empirical case studies. As a consequence of this program our volume is divided into a section dealing with general, theoretical aspects of grammaticalization and a section in which new case studies are presented." |
| Synopsis: |
Since the 1980s theories and studies of grammaticalization have provided a major source of inspiration for the description and explanation of language change, giving rise to many publications and conferences. This collection presents original, empirical studies that explore various facets of grammaticalization research of both formal and functional orientation. The papers of this selection deal with general issues and specific empirical domains, such as personal pronouns; indefinite pronouns; final particles; tense and aspect markers; comitative markers and coordinating conjunctions. The languages covered include English, German, dialects of Italian, Japanese, Polish, and Walman (Papuan). The book will be of great interest to linguists working on language change in a wide variety of languages. |
| Illustrations: |
+ index |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
John Benjamins Publishing Co |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |