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Subject: Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation: Fischer
 

	
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Title: Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today   157  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%20157 


Author: Susann Fischer

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027288189 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027288189 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
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Hardback: ISBN:  9789027255402 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
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Abstract:

This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order
and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting
and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish)
as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of
historical comparative data showing that stylistic fronting and oblique
subjects have (had) a semantic effect in the Germanic and in the Romance
languages, and that they both appear in the same functional category. The
loss of stylistic fronting and oblique subjects is seen as an effect of
grammaticalisation, where grammaticalisation is taken to be a regular case
of parameter change. In contrast to previous and recent approaches to
grammaticalisation, however, the author shows that it is not the loss of
morphology that triggers grammaticalisation with subsequent word-order
changes, but that the word-order change sets off grammaticalisation in the
functional categories, which is then followed by the loss of morphology. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Language Family(ies): Germanic
                      Romance 


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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