Different slants on grammaticalization

Different slants on grammaticalization /

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Hancil, Sylvie (Editor), Tantucci, Vittorio (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]
Series:Studies in language companion series ; v. 232.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammaticalization.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Different Slants on Grammaticalization
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Grammaticalization
  • 2. Defining grammaticalization and grammar
  • 3. Wide vs narrow views of grammaticalization
  • 4. Recent issues in grammaticalization theory
  • 5. The present volume
  • References
  • Section I Diachronic approaches
  • Chapter 1 From comparative standard marker to comparative adverb
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A short history of yori
  • 3. Preceding studies on yori and language contact
  • 3.1 Preceding studies on yori
  • 3.1.1 Hida (1992, 2019)
  • 3.1.2 Morioka (1999)
  • 3.2 Language contact research on Japanese
  • 4. Corpora
  • 5. Survey results and discussion
  • 5.1 Gradualness of grammaticalization
  • 5.2 Collocational sequences that preserve the earlier ablative function of yori
  • 5.2.1 Yori-collocations with particles
  • 5.2.2 Yori co-occurring with sarani 'moreover'
  • 5.3 A collocational sequence that reflects the newer adverbial function of yori
  • 5.4 Language contact and 'extravagance'
  • 5.5 Degrammaticalization and the emergence of the comparative adverb yori
  • 6. Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossing conventions
  • Division of the history of Japanese in this study
  • References
  • Dictionaries
  • Corpora
  • Appendix. The major collocational patterns with yori (based on Shibasaki in press)
  • Chapter 2 From fear to reason
  • 1. From fear to reason cross-linguistically
  • 1.2 Grammaticalization as dependency vs expansion
  • 1.3 Affectives in Mandarin
  • 1.4 Apprehensives in Mandarin
  • 2. Data retrieval
  • 3. Analysis
  • 4. Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 3 -maɾa in Mara
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. On Mara
  • 3. On -maɾa
  • 4. The two auxiliary verb constructions with -maɾa
  • 4.1 Expressing already
  • 4.2 Expressing not yet
  • 5. The grammaticalization of the -maɾa AVCs
  • 5.1 Already
  • 5.1.1 Relaxation of selectional restrictions and expansion in collocational range
  • 5.1.2 Loss of verbal properties and syntactic variability
  • 5.1.3 Shift in anaphoric referencing
  • 5.1.4 Loss of phonological substance
  • 5.2 Not Yet
  • 6. Old forms and cycles of change
  • 6.1 The original formal means for expressing already/not yet
  • 6.2 Diachronic cycle(s) of phasal polarity
  • 6.3 The PhP cycle for -maɾa in Mara
  • 7. Summary and conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Section II Synchronic approaches
  • Chapter 4 Tracking Jespersen's cycle in Veronese and Bresciano
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 The expression of sentential negation
  • 1.2 Grammaticalization of mica in standard and local varieties
  • 1.2.1 Mica in Modern and Old Italian
  • 1.2.2 Mica in Italo-Romance varieties
  • 2. Methodology and research questions
  • 3. Data analysis
  • Indicative
  • Protasis
  • Imperatives
  • Subjunctive subordinates
  • Discussion and conclusion
  • List of abbreviations
  • Note to the glossing system
  • References

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