Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780199265053 |
| ISBN10: | 0199265054 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 224 pages |
| Size: | 233x154x12 mm |
| Weight: | 320 g |
| Language: | English |
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Auxiliation
An Enquiry into the Nature of Grammaticalization
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Date of Publication: 8 January 2004
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Short description:
This book is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the inner mechanisms of grammatical language change, and human communication in general. While we can observe the formal 'symptoms' of change of linguistic expressions, we cannot 'peep' into the minds of the discourse participants during the communicative act and find out what is going on there. This methodological difficulty, however, has not prevented the author from asking the question: how does grammaticalization take place in everyday linguistic communication?
Long description:
This book probes into the nature of grammaticalization on the basis of an in-depth study of the process of auxiliation. Auxiliation is understood as the development of constructions into markers of tense, aspect, and modality. The book is an important contribution to the theory of grammaticalization (and language change in general), grammatical typology, and also to the study of human communication. Its originality lies on the one hand in the uncovering of new linguistic facts involving, among other things, the identification of the category of the avertive as a cross-linguistically valid grammatical distinction. On the other hand, it offers a new perspective on how grammaticalization happens in everyday linguistic communication. Particularly revealing is the study of the potential role that abductive reasoning and mismatches in discourse world knowledge between speaker and hearer play as a motivation for grammatical language change.
Bringing together the explanatory potential of recent grammaticalization theory, and the insights from the latest studies of the psychology of language use, this book represents a valuable achievement in the investigation of grammatical language change and linguistic communication in general.
a valuable ocntribution to the theory of grammaticalization and language change
Bringing together the explanatory potential of recent grammaticalization theory, and the insights from the latest studies of the psychology of language use, this book represents a valuable achievement in the investigation of grammatical language change and linguistic communication in general.
a valuable ocntribution to the theory of grammaticalization and language change
Table of Contents:
Introduction and Historical Overview
The Conceptual-Semantic Aspect of Auxiliation
On 'Functional Need' Explanations in Auxiliation
Identifying a Gram in Auxiliation Across Languages
Auxiliation in Discourse Context
From Everyday Linguistic Communication to Grammaticalization
Conclusion
The Conceptual-Semantic Aspect of Auxiliation
On 'Functional Need' Explanations in Auxiliation
Identifying a Gram in Auxiliation Across Languages
Auxiliation in Discourse Context
From Everyday Linguistic Communication to Grammaticalization
Conclusion
