By Paul J. Hopper
ISBN-10: 0521804213
ISBN-13: 9780521804219
Grammaticalization refers back to the switch wherein lexical phrases and structures serve grammatical capabilities in sure linguistic contexts and, as soon as grammaticalized, proceed to enhance new grammatical capabilities. Paul Hopper and Elizabeth Traugott synthesize study from numerous components of linguistics during this revised advent to the topic. The publication contains immense updates on theoretical and methodological concerns that experience arisen within the decade because the first version, in addition to a considerably increased bibliography. specific consciousness is paid to contemporary debates over directionality in swap and the position of grammaticalization in creolization. First variation Hb (1993): 0-521-36655-0 First version Pb (1993): 0-521-36684-4
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We return to discussion of these debates in Chapter 5 . 6 Conclusion The concepts of grammatical ization have now become part of the standard vocabulary of many l i nguists working i n both synchronic and h istorical fields, and it is assumed as a useful and robust perspective in numerous d escriptive studies o r individual languages and language fami l ies. However, a s in a n y branch o f l i nguis tics, not all those who work on grammatical ization conceptua l i ze i t i n exactly the 18 I Some preliminaries same way.
6. Accompanyi ng this loss of expressivity is a supposed weakening ("affaiblisse ment") of phonological form and of concrete mean ing ( 1 9 1 2 : 1 39). Meil let's ex ample is the development of the Modern Greek future tense morpheme tha, whose origi n i s in an older construction thelO ilia 'I wish that' (with ina from a still earlier Mila). The change included the fol lowing stages ( 1 9 1 2: 1 45): thell> ina > thell> na > then a > tha and the semantic development is from ' wish, desire' to ' future tense.
We will here i ndicate some addi tional signi ficant theoretical trends, the more i m portan t of which w i l l be taken u p later. 4 Recent trends ill research 35 devel oped , and i nterest in h istorical morphosyntax and espec ially grammal ical i za l i on has i ncreased , the rel ationsh i p of gram matical ization to reanalysis has been d i scussed at length - are they the same thi ng, are they d i fferent, and if so does gram matical ization " fall out from" reanalysis (see, among many others, Abraham 1 99 3 ; I.
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