Title: Studies on grammaticalization /
Authors: Verhoeven, Elisabeth.
Date: 2008
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter,
Physical description: x, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Contents: Directionality of grammaticalization processes. Unidirectionality of grammaticalization in an evolutionary perspective / Elena Maslova -- Grammaticalization and set of form-function pairs : encoding spatial concepts in Greek / Stavros Skopeteas -- Nominal categories and adpositions. Grammaticalization of Korean numeral classifiers / Myung-Chul Koo -- Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in Nànáfwê / Amani Bohoussou and Stavros Skopeteas -- On the grammaticalization of the German preposition von as a genitive equivalent / John Ole Askedal -- Verbal categories. The grammaticalization of agreement in Chibchan / J. Diego Quesada -- Decay and loss of applicatives in Siouan languages : a grammaticalization perspective / Johannes Helmbrecht -- Reciprocals in the making : multiple grammaticalization in Manambu / Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald -- The Maltese continuative : a grammaticalization borderliner / Thomas Stolz and Andreas Ammann -- What do "do" verbs do? : the semantic diversity of generalized action verbs / Eva Schultze-Berndt -- Predicting a future change : relative clauses of Japanese / Tasaku Tsunoda -- Grammaticalization and constructions. The catalytic function of constructional restrictions in grammaticalization / Gabrielle Diewald -- Grammaticalization of periphrastic constructions / Ilse Wischer -- Grammaticalization in constructions : clitic doubling with experiencers in Modern Greek / Elisabeth Verhoeven -- Grammaticalization of honorific constructions in Japanese / Yoko Nishina -- From cause to contrast : a study in semantic change / Anna Giacalone Ramat and Caterina Mauri.
Subject headings (LCSH): Grammar, Comparative and general--Grammaticalization