Asynchronous grammaticalization
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Grammaticalization as Optimization
According to the neogrammarians and de Saussure, all linguistic change is either sound change, analogy, or borrowing.1 Meillet (1912) identified a class of changes that don’t fit into any of these three categories. Like analogical changes, they are endogenous innovations directly affecting morphology and syntax, but unlike analogical changes, they are not based on any pre-existing patterns in t...
متن کاملSemantic Change in Grammaticalization
In this paper, I want to establish semantic reanalysis as an independent mode of meaning change in language history. My point of departure will be cases of language change that have traditionally been classed as „grammaticalization“, on one hand because we will find very nice instances of semantic reanalysis particuarly in that field, and on the other hand because I think that the notion of sem...
متن کاملGrammaticalization and Semantic Maps:
Semantic maps have offered linguists an appealing and empirically rooted methodology for describing recurrent structural patterns in language development and the multifunctionality of grammatical categories. Although some researchers argue that semantic maps are universal and given, others provide evidence that there are no fixed or universal maps. This paper takes the position that semantic ma...
متن کاملFiguration and grammaticalization
There is broad agreement among evolutionary linguists that the emergence of human language, as opposed to other primate communication systems, is characterised by two key phenomena: the use of symbols, and the use of grammatical structure (Tomasello 2003). In this paper, we show that these two defining aspects of language actually emerge from the same set of underlying cognitive mechanisms with...
متن کاملThe Formal Semantics of Grammaticalization
Grammaticalization is the gradual historical development of function morphemes from content morphemes. Among the commonly identified characteristics of this process is what is often called “semantic bleaching”: while becoming more and more functional the morpheme loses most of its meaning. In this paper, I ask what sense we can make of “semantic bleaching” from a formal semantic perspective. I ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Languages in Contrast
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1387-6759,1569-9897
DOI: 10.1075/lic.15.1.03leu