World Lexicon of Grammaticalization Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 21,7 Mb
• Release Date : 08 August 2019

Based on analysis of more than 1,000 languages, this volume reconstructs more than 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 38,7 Mb
• Release Date : 13 October 2011

This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 44,5 Mb
• Release Date : 27 January 2005

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• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• File Size : 43,8 Mb
• Release Date : 25 August 1994

This is the second of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UWM linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in 1990. It focuses on the evolution of grammatical form

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• File Size : 54,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 September 2010

This volume contains a selection of papers on grammaticalization from a broad perspective. Some of the papers focus on basic concepts in grammaticalization research such as the concept of 'grammar'

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• File Size : 44,8 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 2024

Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. The book introduces the concept of connecting grammaticalisation to describe the formation,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 23,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 2024

Probing the nature of grammaticalisation on the basis of an in-depth study of the process of auxiliation, this book brings together the explanatory potential of recent grammaticalisation theory and insights

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• File Size : 50,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2005

From the refinement of general methodology, to new insights of synchronic and diachronic universals, to studies of specific phenomena, this collection demonstrates the crucial role that language data play in

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
• File Size : 40,6 Mb
• Release Date : 13 October 2005

This book investigates the historical paths leading from pronouns to markers of verbal agreement and proposes a unified formal account of this grammaticalization process. In opposition to beliefs widely held

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 09 October 1997

Of the 6000 languages now spoken throughout the world around 3000 may become extinct during the next century. This guide gives linguists the tools to describe them, syntactically and grammatically, for future