Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization
By: edited by Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale
Series: Typological studies in language -- v. 90; Typological studies in language -- v. 90.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9789027206718; 9789027288448
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Contributors; title: Acknowledgements; title: Preface / Graeme Trousdale and Elizabeth Closs Traugott; title: Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization: how do they intersect? / Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale; title: Grammaticalization, the clausal hierarchy and semantic bleaching / Ian Roberts; title: Grammatical interference: subject marker for and the phrasal verb particles out and forth / Hendrik De Smet; title: Category change in English with and without structural change / David Denison; title: Features in reanalysis and grammaticalization / Elly van Gelderen; title: How synchronic gradience makes sense in the light of language change (and vice versa) / Anette Rosenbach; title: What can synchronic gradience tell us about reanalysis? Verb-first conditionals in written German and Swedish / Martin Hilpert; title: A paradigmatic approach to language and language change / Lene Schøsler; title: Grammaticalization and the it-cleft construction / Amanda L. Patten; title: Grammaticalization in Chinese: a construction-based account / Walter Bisang; title: Grammaticalization and models of language / Nigel Vincent and Kersti Börjars; title: Language index; title: Subject index.