<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">And for yet another usage of ‘grammatisation’: historians of linguistics use the term for the process of ‘equipping’ languages with tools such as grammars or dictionaries. Sylvain Auroux was a big promoter of the concept.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/hel_0247-8897_1995_num_11_1_3396" class="">https://www.persee.fr/doc/hel_0247-8897_1995_num_11_1_3396</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Aimée</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 10, 2019, at 5:00 AM, Dan I. SLOBIN <<a href="mailto:slobin@berkeley.edu" class="">slobin@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Just to muddy the waters a bit further, in the two volumes emerging from the 1988 Oregon conference (Traugott & Heine, 1991),</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Jim Matisoff went even further in his paper, "Areal and Universal Dimensions of Grammatization in Lahu (Matissof, 1991: 381):</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">"The term <i class="">grammaticalization</i>, despite its heptasyllabic cacophony (the more concise <i class="">grammaticization</i>, or even<i class=""> grammatization</i></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">would be preferable) represents one of the most important phenomena in diachronic linguistics. Grammat(ic[al])ization is</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">inherently a diachronic concept."</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Like Joan Bybee, I opted for <i class="">grammaticization</i> for its economy and elegance, as I saw it; I continue to use that form, avoiding</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">the nuances that have emerged since between the erstwhile synonyms.<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I appreciate Bernhard's placing of the emerging distinction between <i class="">grammaticalization</i> and <i class="">grammaticization</i> in the context of</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="2" class="">a general psycholinguistic process, citing
<span class="">Bréal</span> and Eve Clark who elaborated the point I made in an earlier posting.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="2" class="">The editors of the Oregon conference volume accepted all three variants as titles of individual papers.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="2" class="">Dan</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="2" class="">Elizabeth Closs Traugott & Bernd Heine (Eds.) (1991). <i class="">Approaches to grammaticalization. </i>Vol. 1: <i class="">Focus on theoretical and</i></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="2" class=""><i class="">methodological issues. </i>Vol. 2: <i class="">Focus on types of grammatical markers. </i>Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><font size="2" class="">James A. Matisoff (1991). Areal and universal dimensions of grammatization in Lahu. <i class="">Ibid., </i>383-454.</font><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Aimée Lahaussois<br class="">Histoire des théories linguistiques<br class="">CNRS & Université Paris Diderot<br class="">01 57 27 57 78<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://htl.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/laboratoire/membres/lahaussois-en" class="">http://htl.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/laboratoire/membres/lahaussois-en</a></div></body></html>