31.1831, Books: Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Szczepaniak, Flick (eds.)

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 21:14:21
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article: Szczepaniak, Flick (eds.)

 


Title: Walking on the Grammaticalization Path of the Definite Article 
Subtitle: Functional Main and Side Roads 
Series Title: Studies in Language Variation 23  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/silv.23 


Editor: Renata Szczepaniak
Editor: Johanna Flick

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261564 Pages: 253 Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261564 Pages: 253 Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261564 Pages: 253 Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204943 Pages: 253 Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204943 Pages: 253 Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204943 Pages: 253 Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

This volume focuses on the grammaticalization of the definite article in
German. It contains eight empirically-based papers which examine individual
stages of the grammaticalization path from its beginnings as a demonstrative
to the definite article and beyond. Focusing on cognitive, pragmatic, semantic
and syntactic factors, the contributions not only address the development from
pragmatic to semantic definiteness, but also deal with functional and formal
changes starting as soon as the linguistic unit has acquired the function of
marking semantic definiteness. Based on corpora spanning the entire history of
the German language, from Old High German (750-1050) to present-day German,
the analyses challenge the traditional linear model of grammaticalization and
provide alternative pathways. What all the contributions have in common is the
idea that the main grammaticalization path is accompanied or crossed by
several side roads which lead to different destinations such as
preposition-article-clitics, generic usages or onymic articles.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): German (deu)


Written In: English  (eng)

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