LINGUIST List 22.2933 Mon Jul 18 2011 Diss: Pragmatics/Syntax: Berry: 'Diachronic Adverbial Morphosyntax ...' Editor for this issue: Mfon Udoinyang <mfonlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     James Berry , Diachronic Adverbial Morphosyntax: A minimalist study of lexicalization and grammaticalization Message 1: Diachronic Adverbial Morphosyntax: A minimalist study of lexicalization and grammaticalization Date: 18-Jul-2011 From: James Berry <James.Berryasu.edu> Subject: Diachronic Adverbial Morphosyntax: A minimalist study of lexicalization and grammaticalization E-mail this message to a friend Institution: Arizona State University Program: Interdisciplinary Committee on Linguistics Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2011 Author: James A. Berry Dissertation Title: Diachronic Adverbial Morphosyntax: A minimalist study of lexicalization and grammaticalization Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics                             Syntax Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)                             English (eng) Dissertation Director: Elly van Gelderen Dissertation Abstract: The historical study of sentence adverbs has, before now, been based mostly on models that emphasize the pragmatic and discourse-based motivations of processes of grammaticalization. This dissertation breaks from such tradition by exploring adverb development through syntactic and morphological lenses. A generative, feature-based approach is used that incorporates the cartographic architecture developed by Cinque and combines it with a more phenomenological approach to both grammaticalization and lexicalization. Cinque's hierarchy of speech-act, evaluative, evidential, and epistemic adverbs are analyzed. It is determined (through corpus data) that these subcategories have grown in use primarily during the Modern English era, and particularly during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These four subcategories can be divided into two groups that are more general: speech-act adverbs, which arise from a (conditional) speech clause that undergoes ellipsis, and the other three types, which all arise from copula clauses. Each of these two groups is considered, and different methods of reanalysis by speakers are proposed for each. In addition, a revised model for categorizing adverbs is proposed. This model is based on morphological lexicalization (or univerbation) processes, thus accounting for the wide variety of adverbial source materials. Such lexicalization offers a pattern for sentence adverbial formation. Finally, Standard Chinese adverbials are briefly examined, with the result that they show very similar signs of lexicalization (within the limits of the writing system). Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 18-Jul-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.