Full Description
This volume and its companion one Theoretical and empirical issues in grammaticalization offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held in Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. From the rich programme of the conference (over 120 papers), the twelve contributions included in this volume were carefully selected to reflect the state of current research in grammaticalization and suggest possible directions for future investigations in the field. Combining theoretical discussions with the analysis of particular test cases from a wide range of languages from various language families, the selected papers focus on such central questions as the need for a broader notion of grammaticalization, the distorting effects of grammaticalization on grammar, the areal perspective in grammaticalization and the relevance of contact-induced change to grammaticalization. Other topics discussed include the development of markers of textual connectivity and the emergence of cardinal numerals and numeral systems.
Contents
1. Address list; 2. Preface; 3. Introduction: New perspectives on grammaticalization (by Lopez-Couso, Maria Jose); 4. Grammaticalization and the areal factor: The perspective of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages (by Bisang, Walter); 5. On the grammaticalization of 'come' and 'go' into markers of textual connectivity (by Bourdin, Philippe); 6. Grammaticalization, typology and semantics: Expanding the agenda (by Frajzyngier, Zygmunt); 7. Mismatch: Grammar distortion and grammaticalization (by Gaeta, Livio); 8. Areal convergence in grammaticalization processes (by Giacalone Ramat, Anna); 9. The grammaticalization of nominalizers in Japanese and Korean: A contrastive study (by Horie, Kaoru); 10. On the frills of grammaticalization (by Kuteva, Tania); 11. Nominalizations in Bodic languages (by Noonan, Michael); 12. On the rise and fall of Korean nominalizers (by Rhee, Seongha); 13. The grammaticalization of clausal nominalizers in Burmese (by Simpson, Andrew); 14. The grammaticalization cline of cardinal numerals and numeral systems (by Mengden, Ferdinand von); 15. The development of nominalizers in East Asian and Tibeto-Burman languages (by Yap, Foong Ha); 16. Index of names; 17. Index of languages; 18. Index of subjects
