Description
This is the first general introduction to grammaticalization, the processes whereby ordinary lexical items, such as nouns and verbs, change over time into grammatical elements such as case markers, sentence connectives and auxiliaries, and whereby grammatical elements in general come into being and decay. The authors synthesize work from several areas of linguistics, including historical linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics. Data are drawn from many languages, including Ewe, Finnish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Malay, and especially English.
Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
276 pages
Language
English
Published
Sep 1, 2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Editions
4 editions
ISBN-10
0521009480
ISBN-13
9780521009485