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.
Détails du livre
Format
Relié
Pages
276 pages
Langue
Anglais
Publié
sept. 1, 2003
Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Éditions
4 éditions
ISBN-10
0521009480
ISBN-13
9780521009485