Thoughts on grammaticalization: 3rd edition 2015

Christian Lehmann

2015년 12월 · Classics in Linguistics 1권 · Language Science Press

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After a short review of the history of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ordered by grammatical domains such as the verbal, pronominal and nominal sphere and clause level relations. The final chapter presents a theory of grammaticalization which is based on the autonomy of the linguistic sign with respect to the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes. This is the basis of the structural parameters that constitute grammaticalization. They are operationalized to the point of rendering degrees of grammaticalization measurable.

The present edition contains corrections of the 1995 edition.

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Christian Lehmann is Emeritus Professor of General and Comparative Linguistics at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He has done research in descriptive linguistics, mainly on Latin and Yucatec Maya, on the diachrony and typology of various fields of grammar, and on linguistic methodology. His publications include monographs on the Relative clause (1984) and Possession in Yucatec Maya (1998). He has edited a volume on Participation (2005) and co-edited the volume on Morphology in the series Handbooks of Linguistics and Communications Science (2000/2004) and a two-volume set of Hoocąk teaching materials (2010). His website http://www.christianlehmann.eu offers, among other things, a linguistic bibliographical database with more than 20,000 entries accessible by a system of descriptors.