LINGUIST List 8.1458

Fri Oct 10 1997

Sum: Parts of Speech

Editor for this issue: Martin Jacobsen <martylinguistlist.org>

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1. DECLOITRE PHILIPPE, Parts of Speech

I would like to thank John E. Koontz, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Pierre
Larrivee for their fast and efficient answers concerning the origins
of grammatical parts of speech.

I only wish to give you the titles they proposed: 

-Traugott and Heine, Approaches to Grammaticalization, vols. 1&2
-Heine, Claudi, Huennemeyer, Grammaticalization 
-Traugott and Hopper, Grammaticalization
-Frajzyngier, Joseph Greenberg's article on the historical
 development of gender (and absolute) marking systems, in one of 
 the volumesof the series Universals of Human Language