Grammaticalization/

Main Author: Hopper, Paul J.
Other Authors: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, c2003
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Cambridge textbooks in linguistics
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Some preliminaries
  • The history of grammaticalization
  • Mechanisms: reanalysis and analogy
  • Pragmatic factors
  • The hypothesis of unidirectionality
  • Clause-internal morphological changes
  • Grammaticalization across clauses
  • Grammaticalization in situations of extreme language contact
  • Summary and suggestions for further work.