Beschreibung
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.
Buchdetails
Format
Gebundene Ausgabe
Seiten
276 Seiten
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Sep 1, 2003
Verlag
Cambridge University Press
Ausgaben
4 Ausgaben
ISBN-10
0521009480
ISBN-13
9780521009485