Oxford University Press - Grammaticalization From A Typological Perspective - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
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.
Title: Grammaticalization From A Typological Perspective
Brand: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198795841
Pages: 494 Pages
Publication Date: 1/1/2019
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
Category: Grammar, Syntax & Morphology