The Grammaticalization of Verbs. Verbs as Sources of Grammatical Change - Couverture souple

Bobik, Melanie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 366886733X ISBN 13 : 9783668867338

Editeur : Grin Verlag, 2019

Synopsis

1. Introduction 2. Grammaticalization and its Meaning 3. Where Does Grammar Come From? 4. Characteristics of Grammaticalization 5. Motivations for Grammaticalization 6. From Source to Target: Basicness as Relevance Factor 7. Auxiliary Verbs 7.1. Auxiliation Chains 7.1.1. Verb-to-TAM Chains 7.2. Stages of Auxiliation 7.3. Sit, Stand and Lie as Aspectual Markers 7.3.1. The Evolution of the Sit/Stand/Lie Aspectual Structure 7.3.2. Shift from Locative to Temporal Meaning 7.4. The Future: It Comes, It Goes, It Has to Be 7.4.1. Pathways of Future 7.4.2. From Desire to Prediction 7.4.3. From Motion-in-Space to Progress-in-Time 7.4.5. Obligation Futures 7.5. The Case of Used to 8. From Verb to Preposition 8.1. Prerequisites and Conditioning Factors 8.1.1. European Languages 8.1.2. Serial Verb Languages 8.2. Semantic, Morphological and Phonological Changes 8.2.1. Between Verb and Preposition 8.2.2. Coalescence and Phonological Erosion 8.3. Source and Target Domains of Deverbal Prepositions 9. The Evolution of Complementizers 9.1. The Grammaticalization of a 'Say' Verb in Ewe 9.2. Evidence from Other Languages 9.3. Reanalysis at Work 9.4. Universals versus Substrate 10. A New Quotative Marker: English Be Like 10.1. A Teenage Phenomenon? 10.2. A Notoriously Polyfunctional Item 10.3. Origin and Evolution of Like 10.4. Subjectification 11. Conclusion 12. Summary (Zusammenfassung) 13. Bibliography

A propos du livre

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, Free University of Berlin (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: The famous dictum, ¿grammars code best what speakers do most¿ coined by Du Bois, is a central postulate of all discourse-based approaches to grammaticalization (also known as grammaticization, grammatization). It points to the assumption that frequent repetition in discourse plays a crucial role in the development of grammatical forms, and that basicness is an inherent characteristics of most source concepts. There is only a limited number of lexical items likely to be sources for grammaticalization. Since verbs form the core element of every sentence, expressing different conditions such as states, changes and activities, they provide a rich source for grammatical targets. So how do verbs serve as a source of grammatical change? This academic paper gives answers to this question, discussing the grammaticalization of verbs, and how verbs typically evolve into prepositions, aspectual as well as quotative markers, and complementizers. Evidence is taken not only from English, but also from, i.a., Chinese, German, Spanish, French and African languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grin Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 366886733X
• ISBN 13: 9783668867338
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 120
• Coordonnées du fabricant: GRIN Publishing GmbH; info@grin.com; ; Waltherstraße 23; München; 80337; Allemagne