Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization / edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale

Published:: Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2010]
Copyright Date:: ©2010
Physical Description:: viii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators:: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Trousdale, Graeme, 1971-

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Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 90

Contents:

Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface / Graeme Trousdale and Elizabeth Closs Traugott -- Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: how do they intersect? / Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale -- Grammaticalization, the clausal hierarchy and semantic bleaching / Ian Roberts -- Grammatical interference: subject marker for and the phrasal verb particles out and forth / Hendrik De Smet -- Category change in English with and without structural change / David Denison -- Features in reanalysis and grammaticalization / Elly van Gelderen -- How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa) / Anette Rosenbach -- What can synchronic gradience tell us about reanalysis? Verb-first conditionals in written German and Swedish / Martin Hilpert -- A paradigmatic approach to language and language change / Lene Schøsler -- Grammaticalization and the it-cleft construction / Amanda L. Patten -- Grammaticalization in Chinese: a construction-based account / Walter Bisang -- Grammaticalization and models of language / Nigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars -- Language index -- Subject index.

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9789027206718 (hb : alk. paper)
9027206716 (hb : alk. paper)
9789027288448 (eb : alk. paper)
9027288445 (eb : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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