TY - JOUR

T1 - A usage-based theory of grammatical status and grammaticalization

AU - Harder, Peter

AU - Boye, Kasper

AU - Kasper Boye & Peter Harder

PY - 2012/3

Y1 - 2012/3

N2 - This article proposes a new way of understanding grammatical status and grammaticalization as distinctive types of linguistic phenomena. The approach is usage-based and links up structural and functional, as well as synchronic and diachronic aspects of the issue. The proposal brings a range of hitherto disparate phenomena into a motivated relationship, while certain well-entrenched criteria (such as ‘closed paradigms’) are shown to be incidental to grammatical status and grammaticalization. The central idea is that grammar is constituted by expressions that by linguistic convention are ancillary and as such discursively secondary in relation to other linguistic expressions, and that grammaticalization is the kind of change that gives rise to such expressions

AB - This article proposes a new way of understanding grammatical status and grammaticalization as distinctive types of linguistic phenomena. The approach is usage-based and links up structural and functional, as well as synchronic and diachronic aspects of the issue. The proposal brings a range of hitherto disparate phenomena into a motivated relationship, while certain well-entrenched criteria (such as ‘closed paradigms’) are shown to be incidental to grammatical status and grammaticalization. The central idea is that grammar is constituted by expressions that by linguistic convention are ancillary and as such discursively secondary in relation to other linguistic expressions, and that grammaticalization is the kind of change that gives rise to such expressions

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Grammatical status

KW - Grammaticalization

KW - Grammaticalization

KW - Grammatical status

KW - User-based theory

M3 - Journal article

VL - 88

SP - 1

EP - 44

JO - Language

JF - Language

SN - 0097-8507

IS - 1

ER -