Full Description
This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways of change are replicated across languages, certain language types and language areas have distinct preferences with respect to what they grammaticalize and how. Previous work has principally addressed this question with specific reference to languages of Southeast and East Asia that do not seem to grammaticalize paradigms of categories in the same manner as Indo-European languages, or form extensive grammaticalization chains. This volume takes a broader approach and proceeds systematically area by area: specialists in the field address the processes of grammaticalization in languages of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, and in creole languages. The studies reveal a number of unique pathways of grammaticalization in each language area, as well as identifying the universal shared features of the phenomenon.
Contents
1: Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine: Introduction: Typology and grammaticalization
2: Bernd Heine: Grammaticalization in Africa: Two contrasting hypothese
3: Mohssen Esseesy: Typological features of grammaticalization in Semitic
4: Geoffrey Haig: Grammaticalization and inflectionalization in Iranian
5: Östen Dahl: Grammaticalization in the languages of Europe
6: Martin Haspelmath: Revisiting the anasynthetic spiral
7: Peter Arkadiev &Timur Maisak: Grammaticalization in the North Caucasian Languages
8: Lars Johanson and Éva Á. Csató: Grammaticalization in Turkic
9: Heiko Narrog, Seongha Rhee, and John Whitman: Grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean
10: Alexander R. Coupe: Grammaticalization processes in the languages of South Asia
11: Umberto Ansaldo, Walter Bisang, and Pui Yiu Szeto: Grammaticalization in isolating languages and the notion of complexity
12: Marian Klamer: Typology and grammaticalization in the Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, and Pantar
13: Ilana Mushin: Grammaticalization and typology in Australian Aboriginal languages: Evidence from second position clitic constructions
14: Claire Moyse-Faurie: Grammaticalization in Oceanic languages
15: Marianne Mithun: Shaping typology through grammaticalization: North America
16: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Areal diffusion and the limits of grammaticalization: An Amazonian perspective
17: Roberto Zariquiey: Diachronic stories of body-part nouns in some language families of South America
18: Hiram Smith: Addressing questions of grammaticalization in creoles: It's all about the methodology
19: John McWhorter: Is grammaticalization in Creoles different?
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