Word-order change as a source of grammaticalisation (Monographie)


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Autor(en)

Susann Fischer

Verlag
Benjamins
Stadt
Amsterdam
Publikationsdatum
2010
Reihe
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 157
Weiterführender Link
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LA%20157
ISBN
978-9-02725-540-2 ( im KVK suchen )
Thematik nach Sprachen
Sprachübergreifend
Disziplin(en)
Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagwörter
Grammatikalisierung

Exposé

This book presents a new perspective on the interaction between word-order and grammaticalisation by investigating the changes that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have undergone in Romance (Catalan, French, Spanish) as compared to Germanic (English, Icelandic). It discusses a great deal of historical comparative data showing that stylistic fronting and oblique subjects have (had) a semantic effect in the Germanic and in the Romance languages, and that they both appear in the same functional category. The loss of stylistic fronting and oblique subjects is seen as an effect of grammaticalisation, where grammaticalisation is taken to be a regular case of parameter change. In contrast to previous and recent approaches to grammaticalisation, however, the author shows that it is not the loss of morphology that triggers grammaticalisation with subsequent word-order changes, but that the word-order change sets off grammaticalisation in the functional categories, which is then followed by the loss of morphology.

Inhalt

Table of contents

Acknowledgements ix–x
Chapter 1. Introduction 1–12
Chapter 2. Different views on grammaticalisation and its relation to word-order 13–38
Chapter 3. Historical overview of oblique subjects in Germanic and Romance 39–86
Chapter 4. Historical overview of stylistic fronting in Germanic and Romance 87–128
Chapter 5. Accounting for the differences and similarities between the languages under investigation 129–160
Chapter 6. Explaining the changes: Minimalism meets von Humboldt and Meillet 161–176

References 177–192
Name index 193–196
Subject index 197–200

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Ersteller des Eintrags
Redaktion romanistik.de
Erstellungsdatum
Donnerstag, 25. November 2010, 08:35 Uhr
Letzte Änderung
Donnerstag, 25. November 2010, 08:35 Uhr