30.65, Books: Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective: Narrog, Heine (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:13:18
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective: Narrog, Heine (eds.)

 


Title: Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/grammaticalization-from-a-typological-perspective-9780198795841 


Editor: Heiko Narrog
Editor: Bernd Heine

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198795841 Pages: 496 Price: U.S. $ 105.00


Abstract:

This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby
lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge
and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its
core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways of change are
replicated across languages, certain language types and language areas have
distinct preferences with respect to what they grammaticalize and how.
Previous work has principally addressed this question with specific reference
to languages of Southeast and East Asia that do not seem to grammaticalize
paradigms of categories in the same manner as Indo-European languages, or form
extensive grammaticalization chains. This volume takes a broader approach and
proceeds systematically area by area: specialists in the field address the
processes of grammaticalization in languages of Africa, Europe, Asia and the
Pacific, and the Americas, and in creole languages. The studies reveal a
number of unique pathways of grammaticalization in each language area, as well
as identifying the universal shared features of the phenomenon.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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