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Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics Ser.: Grammaticalization by Paul J. Hopper and Elizabeth Closs Traugott (1993, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521366844
ISBN-139780521366847
eBay Product ID (ePID)904968
Product Key Features
Number of Pages278 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGrammaticalization
Publication Year1993
SubjectGeneral, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines
AuthorPaul J. Hopper, Elizabeth Closs Traugott
SeriesCambridge Textbooks in Linguistics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN92-021612
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal415
Table Of ContentPreface and acknowledgements; 1. Some preliminaries; 2. The history of grammaticalization; 3. Mechanisms: reanalysis and analogy; 4. Pragmatic inferencing; 5. The hypothesis of unidirectionality; 6. Clause-internal morphological changes; 7. Grammaticalization across clauses; 8. Some further issues; Notes; References; Indexes.
SynopsisThis 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., The first general introduction to grammaticalization, the processes whereby ordinary lexical items - 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.
LC Classification NumberP299.G73 H66 1993
