Full Description
The articles in this volume examine a number of critical issues in grammaticalization studies, including the relationship between grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, subjectification and intersubjectification, and grammaticalization and language contact. The contributions consider data from a broad range of spoken and signed languages, including Greek, Japanese, Nigerian Pidgin, Swedish, and Turkish Sign Language. The authors work in a variety of theoretical frameworks, and draw on a number of research traditions. The volume will be of primary interest to historical linguists, though the diversity of approaches and sources of data mean that the volume is also likely have considerable general appeal.
Contents
1. Preface: Meillet and grammaticalisation (by Joseph, John E.); 2. Introduction (by Smith, Andrew D.M.); 3. The grammaticalization of headshakes: From head movement to negative head (by Pfau, Roland); 4. The Swedish connective sa att 'so that': From subordinator to discourse marker (by Rawoens, Gudrun); 5. The lexicalization-grammaticalization-pragmaticalization interface: The case of Mainland Scandinavian jeg tror (by Beijering, Karin); 6. Epistemic/evidential markers of the type verb + complementizer: Some parallels from English and Romance (by Lopez-Couso, Maria Jose); 7. The Neg-Raising Phenomenon as a product of grammaticalization (by Moriya, Tetsuharu); 8. Periphery of utterances and (inter)subjectification in Modern Japanese: A case study of competing causal conjunctions and connective particles (by Higashiizumi, Yuko); 9. Left vs. right periphery in grammaticalization: The case of anyway (by Haselow, Alexander); 10. The diachrony of subjective amenazar 'threaten': On Latin-induced grammaticalization in Spanish (by Cornillie, Bert); 11. Contact-induced grammaticalization in older texts: The Medieval Greek analytic comparatives (by Markopoulos, Theodore); 12. Complexity in gradience: The serial verb take in Nigerian Pidgin (by Mazzoli, Maria); 13. Grammaticalisation as paradigmatisation (by Norgard-Sorensen, Jens); 14. Subject Index; 15. Language Index; 16. Author Index
