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Approaches to grammaticalization. Volume II, Focus on types of grammatical markers / edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Bernd Heine

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Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1991.
Physical Description
1 online resource (556 pages).
Additional Creators
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Heine, Bernd
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Section A. Verbal structure -- section B. Argument structure -- section C. Subordination -- section D. Modality -- section E. Spectra of grammaticalization patterns.
Summary
The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization and gives insights into the genesis, development, and organization of grammatical categories in a number of language world-wide, with particul.
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ISBN
9789027277619 (electronic bk.)
9027277613 (electronic bk.)
902722899X (v. 2 ; hardback)
9027229007 (v. 2 ; pbk.)
1556194021 (v. 2 ; hardback)
155619403X (v. 2 ; pbk.)
9027229015 (set ; hardback)
9027229023 (set ; pbk.)
1556194048 (set)
1556194056 (set)
9789027228994
1283313308
9781283313308
9786613313300
6613313300
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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