Abstract: 1. Acknowledgements 2. Introduction (by Hancil, Sylvie) 3. Part 1. General issues 4. Acquisition Based and Usage Based Explanations of Grammaticalisation. An Integrative Approach (by Ohl, Peter) 5. Grammaticalization and Explanation (by Appelbaum, Irene) 6. The perfectivization of the English perfect: is it a case of grammaticalization, after all? The challenge of pluricentrality (by Walker, Jim) 7. Explaining language structure: On categorial misbehavior in Walman (Papua New Guinea) (by Heine, Bernd) 8. Toward a constructional framework for research on language change (by Traugott, Elizabeth Closs) 9. Part 2. Case studies 10. Grammaticalization of Polish mental predicate prefixes (by Kokorniak, Iwona) 11. More Thoughts on the Grammaticalization of Personal Pronouns: Evidence from the history of Japanese (by Shibasaki, Reijirou) 12. The grammaticalization of nome in the Eastern Abruzzese dialect Ortese: Fromindefinite pronoun to inflectional marker? (by Russi, Cinzia) 13. The different developments of progressive aspect markers be in the middle/midst of and be in the process of V-ing: mechanisms of change (by Van Rompae, Tine) 14. Sequentiality in dialogue as a trigger for grammaticalization (by Haselow, Alexander) 15. The final particle in British English: an instance of cooptation and grammaticalization at work (by Hancil, Sylvie) 16. Final hanging but in American English: Where a formal coordinator meets a functional subordinator (by Izutsu, Mitsuko Narita) 17. Author index 18. Subject index
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-09-05
Language: en
Type: book
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