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Grammaticalization and Pragmatics: Facts, Approaches, Theoretical Issues

Grammaticalization and Pragmatics: Facts, Approaches, Theoretical Issues

Rossari, Corinne
Ricci, Claudia
Spiridon, Adriana

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Grammar & StyleLinguistics

ISBN10: 1848551622
ISBN13: 9781848551626
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 16 2009
Pages: 241
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
The studies collected in this volume deal with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of complex syntactic structures in various languages (Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian and Spanish). They are set against the theoretical framework of grammaticalization. The main methodological tools are cross-linguistic contrastive analysis and diachronic perspective. The two main issues that emerge from these studies are the place of pragmatic factors in language change (input, output or setting/frame of the process) and the existence or otherwise of a prevailing mechanism for explaining change phenomena.

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