TY - BOOK

T1 - Connecting Grammaticalisation

AU - Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens

AU - Heltoft, Lars

AU - Schøsler, Lene

N1 - paginering: xiii, 347 pp.

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word order), constructional syntax and other grammatical subsystems is their paradigmatic organisation. The traditional concept of an inflexional paradigm is generalised as the structuring principle of grammar. Grammatical change involves paradigmatic restructuring, and in the process of grammatical change morphological, topological and constructional paradigms often connect to form complex paradigms. The book introduces the concept of connecting grammaticalisation to describe the formation, restructuring and dismantling of such complex paradigms. Drawing primarily on data from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages, the book offers both a broad general discussion of theoretical issues (part one) and three case studies (part two).

AB - This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, topology (word order), constructional syntax and other grammatical subsystems is their paradigmatic organisation. The traditional concept of an inflexional paradigm is generalised as the structuring principle of grammar. Grammatical change involves paradigmatic restructuring, and in the process of grammatical change morphological, topological and constructional paradigms often connect to form complex paradigms. The book introduces the concept of connecting grammaticalisation to describe the formation, restructuring and dismantling of such complex paradigms. Drawing primarily on data from Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages, the book offers both a broad general discussion of theoretical issues (part one) and three case studies (part two).

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - grammatikalisering

KW - paradigmer

KW - reanalyse

KW - aktualisering

KW - sprogforandring

KW - konstruktionsgrammatik

KW - markerethed

KW - variation

M3 - Book

SN - 978 90 272 1575 8

T3 - Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics

BT - Connecting Grammaticalisation

PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company

ER -