17.2938, Books: Syntax: Leuschner

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Date: 06-Oct-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Hypotaxis as Building-Site: Leuschner 

	
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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:18:44
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Hypotaxis as Building-Site: Leuschner 
 



Title: Hypotaxis as Building-Site 
Subtitle: The Emergence and Grammaticalization of Concessive Conditionals in English,
German and Dutch
 
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Germanic Linguistics 24  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.at
	
Author: Torsten Leuschner, Ghent University

Paperback: ISBN: 389586353X Pages: 191 Price: Europe EURO 62.00


Abstract:

This is the first book-length study of concessive conditionals, a type of
adverbial clause that shows an unusual breadth of variation in Germanic and
is therefore characterized as a "building-site" of grammaticalization.
Entirely based on corpus data, it offers a detailed description of
concessive conditionals and their subtypes in English, German and Dutch
from the point of view of form-function relations and the discourse-syntax
interface. 

The discourse conditions under which their more or less strongly
grammaticalized formal varieties are used in discourse are pinpointed, and
a clear distinction is drawn between the synchronic and diachronic
emergence of concessive conditionals. Contrary to traditional assumptions
in grammaticalization methodology, present-day variation patterns of
concessive conditionals do not necessarily reflect their actual paths of
historical development. Rather than evolve steadily towards ever increasing
grammaticalization, concessive conditionals have been hovering on the edge
of syntax in the languages in question and are likely to continue to do so
for the foreseeable future. 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     English (eng)
                     German, Standard (deu)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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