New reflections on grammaticalization /

The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical and methodological issues and raise a number of new questions that indicate the future direction of grammaticalization studies. The volume focuses on issues such as grammaticalization and lexicalization; the unidirectionality hypothe...

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Other Authors: Diewald, Gabriele, Wischer, Ilse, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002
Series:Typological studies in language ; v. 49
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Table of Contents:
  • New Reflections on Grammaticalization; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Introduction; New reflections on grammaticalization and lexicalization; More thoughts on degrammaticalization; Grammaticalization within a theory of morphocentricity; The final stages of grammaticalization: Affixhood and beyond; Yesterday's affixes as today's clitics; On the role of context in grammaticalization; A model for relevant types of contexts in grammaticalization; Semantic constraints in the grammaticalization of locative constructions