Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in EnglishOlga Fischer, Anette Rosenbach, Dieter Stein There is a continual growth of interest among linguists of all-theoretical denominations in grammaticalization, a concept central to many linguistic (change) theories. However, the discussion of grammaticalization processes has often suffered from a shortage of concrete empirical studies from one of the best-documented languages in the world, English. Pathways of Change contains discussion of new data and provides theoretical lead articles based on these data that will help sharpen the theoretical aspects involved, such as the definition and the logical connection of the component processes of grammaticalization. The volume is concentrated around a number of themes that are important or controversial in grammaticalization studies, such as the principle of unidirectionality, the relation between lexicalization and grammaticalization and connected with these two factors the possibility of degrammaticalization the way iconicity interweaves with grammaticalization processes, and with the phenomenon of grammaticalization on a synchronic or discourse level, also often termed subjectifization. |
Contents
Word order options and category shift in | 39 |
The grammaticalization of the verb pray | 67 |
The grammaticalization of concessive markers in Early Modern Eng | 85 |
Combining English auxiliaries | 111 |
Unidirectional nonreversable? The case of | 149 |
Remarks on the degrammaticalisation of infinitival to in presentday | 171 |
The role of person and position in Old English | 187 |
Remarks on unidirectionality | 207 |
Discourse markers in Old English | 229 |
Onginnanbeginnan with bare and toinfinitive in Ælfric | 251 |
Some suggestions for explaining the origin and development of | 275 |
The case of English counterfactual condi | 311 |
Tracks | 329 |
Methinks there is some | 355 |
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Common terms and phrases
adjective adverbs Ælfric Amsterdam Amsterdam/Philadelphia apodosis Approaches to Grammaticalization auxiliary Beowulf bleaching Brinton Cambridge University Press century clause cline clitic complements concessive markers construction contexts counterfactual definite article Denison diachronic dialects discourse markers discussion Dutch Early Modern English EModE2 English period examples expression factual concessive Fischer forms function grammatical grammaticalisation grammaticalization grammaticalization processes Haiman Haspelmath Heine Helsinki Helsinki Corpus Historical Linguistics Hopper and Traugott hypothetical concessive iconic infinitival infinitive inflection instance John Benjamins König language change Latin lovely meaning metonymic Middle English modal morphology Mouton de Gruyter negative negator noun occur Old English onginnan onginnan/beginnan paradigm passive past participle pattern Peterborough Chronicle phrase position pragmatic pray preposition present perfect present-day English preterite pro-drop pronouns protasis reanalysis reference Samaná Samaná English semantic sense sentence soplice and witodlice speaker split infinitive structure Studies syntactic Syntax Tagliamonte tense texts to-infinitive verb Visser word order þæt