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Degrammaticalization

Autor Muriel Norde
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 sep 2009
Grammaticalization is a well-attested process of linguistic change in which a lexical item becomes a function word, which may be further reduced to a clitic or affix. Proponents of the universality of grammaticalization have usually argued that it is unidirectional and have thus found it a useful tool in linguistic reconstruction. In this book Prof Norde shows that change is reversible on all levels: semantic, morphological, syntactic, and phonological. As a consequence, the alleged unidirectionality of grammaticalization is not a reliable reconstructional tool, even if degrammaticalization is a rare phenomenon.Degrammaticalization, she argues, is essentially different from grammaticalization: it usually comprises a single change, examples being shifts from affix to clitic, or from function word to lexical item. And where grammaticalization can be seen as a process, degrammaticalization is often the by-product of other changes. Nevertheless, she shows that it can be described, like grammaticalization, in a principled way, in order to establish whether a change in a word has been from more to less grammatical or vice versa, and the stages by which it has become so. Using data from different languages she constructs a typology of degrammaticalization changes. She explains why degrammaticalization is so rare and why some linguists have such strongly negative feelings about the possibility of its existence. She adds to the understanding of grammaticalization and makes a significant contribution to methods of linguistic reconstruction and the study of language change. She writes clearly, aiming to be understood by advanced undergraduate students as well as appealing to scholars and graduate researchers in historical linguistics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199207930
ISBN-10: 0199207933
Pagini: 290
Ilustrații: Tables, Tree Diagrams
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Muriel Norde's Degrammaticalization is, amon the most important contribution to the field of grammaticalization research published in the last few years, and an indispensable guide not only to the more 'exotic' phenomenon of degrammaticalization, but also a critical and well-informed review of all the major conceptual issues in the study of grammatical change, as well.

Notă biografică

Muriel Norde is Professor of Scandinavian Languages and Literature at the University of Groningen. She was previously a research fellow at the University of Amsterdam. Her 1997 University of Amsterdam PhD was awarded for a study of the history of the Swedish genitive. She has published extensively on grammaticalization and related phenomena, including articles in Nordic Journal of Linguistics and Language Sciences. She is also the co-editor, with Olga Fischer and Harry Perridon, of Up and Down the Cline: the Nature of Grammaticalization (Benjamins, 2004).