New Book: Fischer

[Paul Peranteau]

John Benjamins Publishing announces a new work in functional linguistics:

Pathways of Change.
Grammaticalization in English.
Olga FISCHER, Anette ROSENBACH and Dieter STEIN (eds.) (University of
Amsterdam / Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf)
Studies in Language Companion Series
US & Canada: 1 55619 939 2 / USD 105.00 (Hardcover)
Rest of world: 90 272 3056 0 / NLG 210.00 (Hardcover)

There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of
all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept
central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the
discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from
a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one of the
best-documented languages in the world, English. Pathways of Change
contains discussion of new data and provides theoretical lead
articles based on these data that will help sharpen the theoretical
aspects involved, such as the definition and the logical connection
of the component processes of grammaticalization. The volume is
concentrated around a number of themes that are important or
controversial in grammaticalization studies, such as the principle
of unidirectionality, the relation between lexicalization and
grammaticalization -- and connected with these two factors the
possibility of degrammaticalization -- the way iconicity
interweaves with grammaticalization processes, and with the
phenomenon of grammaticalization on a synchronic or discourse
level, also often termed subjectifization.

Contributions by: Olga Fischer & Anette Rosenbach; Sylvia Adamson;
Minoji Akimoto; Guohua Chen; David Denison; Olga Fischer; Susan
Fitzmaurice; Elly van Gelderen; Roger Lass; Ursula Lenker; Bettelou
Los; Robert McColl Millar; Rafat Molencki; Sali A. Tagliamonte;
Ilse Wischer.

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