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The limits of grammaticalization /
The earliest use of the term "grammaticalization" was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "he keeps bees") become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in "he keeps looking at me"). Changes of this kind, which involve...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
©1998.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 37. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The earliest use of the term "grammaticalization" was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "he keeps bees") become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in "he keeps looking at me"). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a downshift from a major to a minor category, have generally been agreed to come under the heading of grammaticalization. But other changes that equally contribute to new grammatical forms do not involve this kind of fading. In recent years, a debate has arisen over how to constrain the term theoretically. Is. |
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| Notas: | Chiefly papers presented at a symposium held during the 28th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea which was held Aug. 1995, Leiden, Netherlands. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 302 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027275578 9027275572 |
| ISSN: | 0167-7373 ; |