New Benjamins title -Traugott & Trousdale eds.: Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization

[Paul Peranteau]

Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization
Edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale
Stanford University / The University of Edinburgh

Typological Studies in Language 90

2010. ix, 306 pp.
Hardbound  978 90 272 0671 8 / EUR 99.00 / USD 149.00
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This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the New Reflections on 
Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, 
contains a collection of papers which investigate the relationship 
between synchronic gradience and the apparent gradualness of 
linguistic change, largely from the perspective of 
grammaticalization. In addition to versions of the papers presented 
at the workshop, the volume contains specially commissioned 
contributions, some of which offer commentaries on a subset of the 
other articles. The articles address a number of themes central to 
grammaticalization studies, such as the role of reanalysis and 
analogy in grammaticalization, the formal modelling of 
grammaticalization, and the relationship between formal and 
functional change, using data from a range of languages, and (in some 
cases) from particular electronic corpora. The volume will be of 
specific interest to historical linguists working on 
grammaticalization, and general linguists working on the interface 
between synchrony and diachrony.


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Table of contents

Contributors  vii–viii
Acknowledgements  ix
Preface
Graeme Trousdale and Elizabeth Closs Traugott 1–18
Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: How do they intersect?
Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale 19–44
Grammaticalization, the clausal hierarchy and semantic bleaching
Ian Roberts 45–73
Grammatical interference: Subject marker for and the phrasal verb 
particles out and forth
Hendrik De Smet 75–104
Category change in English with and without structural change
David Denison 105–128
Features in reanalysis and grammaticalization
Elly van Gelderen 129–147
How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change 
(and vice versa)
Anette Rosenbach 149–179
What can synchronic gradience tell us about reanalysis? Verb-first 
conditionals in written German and Swedish
Martin Hilpert 181–201
A paradigmatic approach to language and language change
Lene Schøsler 203–220
Grammaticalization and the it-cleft construction
Amanda L. Patten 221–243
Grammaticalization in Chinese: A construction-based account
Walter Bisang 245–277
Grammaticalization and models of language
Nigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars 279–299
Language index  301
Subject index  303–306




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