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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

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Title: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization
Edited By: Elena Seoane
María José López-Couzo
URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=TSL%2077
Series Title: Typological Studies in Language 77
Description:

In collaboration with Teresa Fanego

Part of the set: López-Couso, María José and Elena Seoane (eds.), Rethinking Grammaticalization. New perspectives & Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Grammaticalization.

This volume and its companion one Rethinking Grammaticalization: New perspectives offer a selection of papers from the Third International Conference New Reflections on Grammaticalization, held at the University of Santiago de Compostela in July 2005. The overall aim of the book is to enrich our understanding of what grammaticalization entails via detailed case studies in combination with theoretical and methodological discussions. Some of the theoretical issues discussed in the sixteen articles included in the volume are the nature of grammaticalization and related processes such as anti-, re- and degrammaticalization, the relationship between grammaticalization and lexicalization, the role of frequency in grammaticalization and the interplay between information structure and grammaticalization. Other topics covered are the grammaticalization of composite predicates in English, the emergence of modal particles in German and particle clusters in Dutch and the grammaticalization of various modal auxiliaries in Spanish and in Swedish.

Table of contents

Preface

Introduction: Further reflections on grammaticalization, Elena Seoane and María José López-Couso

Swedish må and the (de)grammaticalization debate, Peter Andersson

'Where grammar and lexis meet:' Composite predicates in English, Laurel J. Brinton

On the grammaticalization and (inter)subjectivity of evidential (semi-)auxiliaries in Spanish, Bert Cornillie

Semantic, syntactic and constructional restrictions in the diachronic rise of modal particles in German: A corpus-based study on the formation of a grammaticalization channel, Gabriele Diewald and Gisella Ferraresi

Double indirect object marking in Spanish and Italian, Andreas Dufter and Elisabeth Stark

The emergence of particle clusters in Dutch: Grammaticalization under adverse conditions, Jack Hoeksema

Antigrammaticalization, antimorphologization and the case of Tura, Dmitry Idiatov

Can grammaticalization be parameterized? Jurgen Klausenburger

Possessive adjectives as a source of intensifiers, Ekkehard König and Letizia Vezzosi

Information structure and grammaticalization, Christian Lehmann

From speech-situation evocation to hypotaxis: The case of Latin quamvis 'although', Torsten Leuschner

Grammaticalization waves: The Russian subjunctive mood and person/number marking, Jens Nørgård-Sørensen

Discourse frequency and the collapse of the adposition vs. affix distinction in Lakota, Regina Pustet

On the grammaticalization of the Spanish expression puede que, María José Rodríguez Espiñeira and Belén López Meirama

On the history and present behaviour of subordinating that with adverbial conjunctions in English, Guenter Rohdenburg

The regrammaticalization of linking elements in German, Heide Wegener

Language index

Name index

Subject index

Publication Year: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Morphology
Syntax
Subject Language(s): Dutch
English
German
Spanish
Swedish

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9027229899
ISBN-13: 9789027229892
Prices: Europe EURO 115.00
U.S. $ 173.00