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What Makes Grammaticalization?: A Look from Its Fringes and Its Components

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What Makes Grammaticalization?: A Look from Its Fringes and Its Components - Bisang, Walter (Editor), and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P (Editor), and Wiemer, Björn (Editor)
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The status of grammaticalization has been the subject of many controversial discussions. The contributions to What makes Grammaticalization? approach the prevalent phenomenon from the angle of language structure and focus on the interrelation between the levels of phonology, pragmatics (inference), discourse and the lexicon and some of them try to integrate the areal perspective. A wealth of data from Slavonic languages as well as from languages of other genetic and areal affiliation is discussed. The book is of interest ...

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What Makes Grammaticalization?: A Look from Its Fringes and Its Components 2004, Walter de Gruyter, Basel/Berlin/Boston

ISBN-13: 9783110181524

Hardcover