TY - BOOK
T1 - Grammaticalization from a typological perspective
AU - Narrog, Heiko
AU - Heine, Bernd
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© editorial matter and organization Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine 2018 and © the chapters their several authors 2018.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processesâ 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.
AB - This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processesâ 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.
KW - Grammatical categories
KW - Grammaticalization
KW - Grammaticalization chains
KW - Lexical words
KW - Pathways
KW - Typology
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U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780198795841.001.0001
DO - 10.1093/oso/9780198795841.001.0001
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85061701499
BT - Grammaticalization from a typological perspective
PB - Oxford University Press
ER -