LINGUIST List 21.2951

Fri Jul 16 2010

Books: Historical Linguistics/Sociolinguistics: Fischer

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        1.    Paul Peranteau, Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation: Fischer

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Message 1: Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation: Fischer
Date: 09-Jul-2010
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation: Fischer
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Title: Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 157 Published: 2010 Publisher: John Benjamins
                http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%20157

Author: Susann Fischer Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288189 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027288189 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255402 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 95
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255402 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027255402 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Abstract:

This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-orderand grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic frontingand oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish)as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal ofhistorical comparative data showing that stylistic fronting and obliquesubjects have (had) a semantic effect in the Germanic and in the Romancelanguages, and that they both appear in the same functional category. Theloss of stylistic fronting and oblique subjects is seen as an effect ofgrammaticalisation, where grammaticalisation is taken to be a regular caseof parameter change. In contrast to previous and recent approaches togrammaticalisation, however, the author shows that it is not the loss ofmorphology that triggers grammaticalisation with subsequent word-orderchanges, but that the word-order change sets off grammaticalisation in thefunctional categories, which is then followed by the loss of morphology.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics                             Sociolinguistics Language Family(ies): Germanic                             Romance
Written In: English (eng )

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