Hancil, Sylvie
(ed.)
Tantucci, Vittorio
(ed.)
Editorial: John Benjamins Publishing
Colección: Studies in Language Companion Series ; 232
Número de páginas: 286 págs.
Fecha de edición: 01-07-2023
EAN: 9789027213754
ISBN: 978-90-272-1375-4
Precio (sin IVA): 117,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 121,68 €
This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of grammars. In this volume, grammaticalization is dealt with diachronically, synchronically and as a by-product of dialogic interaction. Another key feature of this book is language diversity; as it includes studies on language families ranging from Niger-Congo, Koreanic, Japonic, Sino-Tibetan to Germanic and Romance. The novel aspects of grammaticalization addressed are new slants on the fundamental debate about grammaticalization as expansion vs reduction; the grammatical formation of ideophones; the semantic domain of fear as a source and a trigger of grammatical change, and many other aspects of semantic and morphosyntactic development.