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Author: Regine Eckardt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-07-27
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0199262608
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author explores the mechanisms underlying semantic change. Meaning changes work, and this is evident in processes of grammaticalisation in which lexical items lose autonomous meaning. Based on formal semantic theory, this book is useful for students of historical and comparative linguistics and formal semantics.
Author: Douglas Biber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-06-25
Total Pages: 757
ISBN-13: 1316298701
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics (CHECL) surveys the breadth of corpus-based linguistic research on English, including chapters on collocations, phraseology, grammatical variation, historical change, and the description of registers and dialects. The most innovative aspects of the CHECL are its emphasis on critical discussion, its explicit evaluation of the state of the art in each sub-discipline, and the inclusion of empirical case studies. While each chapter includes a broad survey of previous research, the primary focus is on a detailed description of the most important corpus-based studies in this area, with discussion of what those studies found, and why they are important. Each chapter also includes a critical discussion of the corpus-based methods employed for research in this area, as well as an explicit summary of new findings and discoveries.
Author: Nick Riemer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-03-25
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 0521851920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the study of meaning in language for undergraduate students.
Author: Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-01-31
Total Pages: 539
ISBN-13: 9004507051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do you get from ‘after all those movies’ to ‘I went to a movie after all’?
Author: Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-10-27
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781139445733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has been viewed by syntacticians as the reverse process of grammaticalization, by morphologists as a routine process of word-formation, and by semanticists as the development of concrete meanings. In this up-to-date survey, Laurel Brinton and Elizabeth Traugott examine the various conceptualizations of lexicalization that have been presented in the literature. In light of contemporary work on grammaticalization, they then propose a new, unified model of lexicalization and grammaticalization. Their approach is illustrated with a variety of case studies from the history of English, including present participles, multi-word verbs, adverbs, and discourse markers, as well as some examples from other Indo-European languages. The first review of the various approaches to lexicalization, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of historical linguistics and language change.
Author: Xiu-Zhi Zoe Wu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1134307276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammaticalization and Language Change in Chinese illuminates how studies of language development and change provide special insights into the understanding of current, synchronic systems of language.
Author: Keith Allan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-01-12
Total Pages: 967
ISBN-13: 1139501895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPragmatics is the study of human communication: the choices speakers make to express their intended meaning and the kinds of inferences that hearers draw from an utterance in the context of its use. This Handbook surveys pragmatics from different perspectives, presenting the main theories in pragmatic research, incorporating seminal research as well as cutting-edge solutions. It addresses questions of rational and empirical research methods, what counts as an adequate and successful pragmatic theory, and how to go about answering problems raised in pragmatic theory. In the fast-developing field of pragmatics, this Handbook fills the gap in the market for a one-stop resource to the wide scope of today's research and the intricacy of the many theoretical debates. It is an authoritative guide for graduate students and researchers with its focus on the areas and theories that will mark progress in pragmatic research in the future.
Author: Nicole Hober
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-11-08
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 3110728680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammaticalization research looks back on a rich history, but recent empirical findings, as well as new insights from cognitive science and psycholinguistics, entice researchers to reassess and review what we know about the process. This book presents a detailed study of the grammaticalization of motion verbs in the Mayan languages. The focus lies on variation in the parallel grammaticalization of motion verbs into auxiliaries and directionals. It is demonstrated that the genetically related and areally close languages do not always grammaticalize source items in the same way - both from a formal and meaning perspective. The empirical findings suggest that traditional theories on grammaticalization do not capture the complex nature of the phenomenon entirely. Therefore, a Network Approach to grammaticalization is introduced which emphasizes a 'meaning-first' account. The approach seeks to combine the conceptual with the discourse-pragmatic while being firmly grounded in cognitive and psychological facts. New insights into the grammaticalization behavior of the world's languages are offered, while well-established notions and assumptions within the grammaticalization research paradigm are reviewed and challenged.
Author: Joan Bybee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-05-28
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1107020166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new introduction explores all aspects of language change, with an emphasis on the role of cognition and language use.
Author: Muriel Norde
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-09-17
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0199207925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuriel Norde shows that linguistic change via the well-attested process of grammaticalization is reversible and that degrammaticalization can occur on all levels: semantic, morphological, syntactic, and phonological. Her careful analysis of the process makes a significant contribution to methods of linguistic reconstruction and language change.
