Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-879584-1
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 494 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 901 g

This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways of change are replicated across languages, certain language types and language areas have distinct preferences with respect to what they grammaticalize and how. Previous work has principally addressed this question with specific reference to languages of Southeast and East Asia that do not seem to grammaticalize paradigms of categories in the same manner as Indo-European languages, or form extensive grammaticalization chains. This volume takes a broader approach and proceeds systematically area by area: specialists in the field address the processes of grammaticalization in languages of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, and in creole languages. The studies reveal a number of unique pathways of grammaticalization in each language area, as well as identifying the universal shared features of the phenomenon.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Narrog, Heiko

Heine, Bernd

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine: Introduction: Typology and grammaticalization

- 2: Bernd Heine: Grammaticalization in Africa: Two contrasting hypothese

- 3: Mohssen Esseesy: Typological features of grammaticalization in Semitic

- 4: Geoffrey Haig: Grammaticalization and inflectionalization in Iranian

- 5: Östen Dahl: Grammaticalization in the languages of Europe

- 6: Martin Haspelmath: Revisiting the anasynthetic spiral

- 7: Peter Arkadiev andTimur Maisak: Grammaticalization in the North Caucasian Languages

- 8: Lars Johanson and Éva Á. Csató: Grammaticalization in Turkic

- 9: Heiko Narrog, Seongha Rhee, and John Whitman: Grammaticalization in Japanese and Korean

- 10: Alexander R. Coupe: Grammaticalization processes in the languages of South Asia

- 11: Umberto Ansaldo, Walter Bisang, and Pui Yiu Szeto: Grammaticalization in isolating languages and the notion of complexity

- 12: Marian Klamer: Typology and grammaticalization in the Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, and Pantar

- 13: Ilana Mushin: Grammaticalization and typology in Australian Aboriginal languages: Evidence from second position clitic constructions

- 14: Claire Moyse-Faurie: Grammaticalization in Oceanic languages

- 15: Marianne Mithun: Shaping typology through grammaticalization: North America

- 16: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Areal diffusion and the limits of grammaticalization: An Amazonian perspective

- 17: Roberto Zariquiey: Diachronic stories of body-part nouns in some language families of South America

- 18: Hiram Smith: Addressing questions of grammaticalization in creoles: It's all about the methodology

- 19: John McWhorter: Is grammaticalization in Creoles different?

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Heiko Narrog is Professor at Tohoku University. He received a PhD in Japanese Studies from the Ruhr University Bochum in 1997, and a PhD in Language Studies from Tokyo University in 2002. He is the author of Modality in Japanese and the Layered Structure of the Clause (Benjamins, 2009), and Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (OUP, 2012) as well as numerous articles in linguistic typology, semantics and language change, and Japanese linguistics.

Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne. He has held visiting professorships at universities across the world, including Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, La Trobe University, the University of Cape Town, Dartmouth College, and Universidade Federal Fluminense. His many publications include The Changing Languages of Europe (OUP, 2006) and The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction (OUP, 2007), both with Tania Kuteva.

Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog are co-editors of the OUP volumes The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (2010; second edition 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization (2010).