By Sylvie Hancil, Ekkehard König
Because the Nineteen Eighties theories and reports of grammaticalization have supplied an incredible resource of concept for the outline and clarification of language switch, giving upward push to many courses and meetings. This assortment offers unique, empirical reports that discover quite a few aspects of grammaticalization learn of either formal and practical orientation. The papers of this option care for basic matters and particular empirical domain names, comparable to own pronouns; indefinite pronouns; ultimate debris; demanding and point markers; comitative markers and coordinating conjunctions. The languages coated contain English, German, dialects of Italian, jap, Polish, and Walman (Papuan). The e-book can be of serious curiosity to linguists engaged on language switch in a wide selection of languages.
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The process that I have sketched takes generations to happen, normally centuries. (Heine 2002: 96) In an acquisition-based model, both the bridging and the switch context in Heine’s terms are rather regarded as potential input for parameter resetting and the rise of grammatical rules that were not at the speakers’ disposal. In principle, all suitable kinds of contexts may create the input for parametric change. Thus, there is no measurable time expense or number of speakers’ generation that can be regarded as typical of a grammaticalisation process.
They still exist in Modern German and are then sometimes referred to as haben-configuratives (cf. Businger 2011). There are also Modern English equivalents as follows: (17) a. He wants to have his car washed by noone else. (passive-like have-configurative) b. I have one apple (that is) (un)peeled. (depictive object predicative) c. We have everything ready and done. e. closing element). This can be noted as a canonical schema, as suggested by Businger (2011: 30). . For the term cyclicity in general cf.
Berlin: De Gruyter. Abraham, Werner. 2014. Ergativa sind terminativa. In Schriften zur Synchronie und Diachronie des Deutschen [Danziger Beiträge zur Germanistik], Andrzej Katny, Michail Kotin, Elisabeth Leiss & Anna Socka (eds), 72–97. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Businger, Martin. 2011. 〈Haben〉 als Vollverb. Eine dekompositionale Studie. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ). 1975. Sprachwandel. Reader zur Diachronischen Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin: De Gruyter. Acquisition-based and usage-based explanations of grammaticalisation Cook, Vivian & Newson, Mark.