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Thoughts on grammaticalization
Synopsis
"Thoughts on grammaticalization" was first published in a working-paper
version in 1982 and became very influential immediately, even though it
was properly published only in 1995. Despite its modest title, the book
can be read as an advanced introduction to grammaticalization, though
its conception is very original. The present edition contains a number
of corrections of the 1995 edition. After a short review of the history
of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to
grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of
grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ordered by
grammatical domains such as the verbal, pronominal and nominal sphere
and clause level relations. The final chapter presents a theory of
grammaticalization which is based on the autonomy of the linguistic sign
with respect to the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes. This is the basis
of the structural parameters that constitute grammaticalization. They
are operationalized to the point of rendering degrees of
grammaticalization measurable.
Reviews
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Revew in Kratylos
by Ville Leppänen
published January 1, 2016
Christian Lehmann's seminal monograph "Thoughts on Grammaticalization" has reached its most polished form in the third edition. [...] The strengths of Lehmann's approach are its solid empirical basis, typological diversity of the data, and the explicit principles and mechanics of theory formation: No other scholar has thus far proposed another so extensive a model for in-depth formal analysis of the grammaticalization parameters. [...] All in all, despite 30 years of continuously expanding research in the field, "Thoughts on Grammaticalization" remains an important contribution in grammaticalization studies and should be thoroughly absorbed by anyone interested in grammaticalization and in language change in general.
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ISBN-13 (15)
978-3-946234-05-0
ISBN-13 hardcover (28)
978-3-946234-06-7
ISBN-13 softcover (29)
978-3-946234-07-4
ISBN-13 softcover-US (30)
978-1-523743-30-8
Publication date (01)
2015-12-08
doi
10.17169/langsci.b88.98
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Publication date (01)
2015-12-08
doi
10.17169/langsci.b88.99