Lexicalization and Language Change
Title | Lexicalization and Language Change PDF eBook |
Author | Laurel J. Brinton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2005-10-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781139445733 |
Lexicalization, 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.
Lexicalization and Language Change
Title | Lexicalization and Language Change PDF eBook |
Author | Laurel J. Brinton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781280415593 |
Lexicalization, 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.
Understanding Language Change
Title | Understanding Language Change PDF eBook |
Author | April M. S. McMahon |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1994-03-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521446655 |
This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.
The Changing English Language
Title | The Changing English Language PDF eBook |
Author | Marianne Hundt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2017-07-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107086868 |
Experts from psycholinguistics and English historical linguistics address core factors in language change.
Grammaticalization and Language Change
Title | Grammaticalization and Language Change PDF eBook |
Author | Kristin Davidse |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027205973 |
This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features, and outcomes of these changes. New theoretical reflections are offered on the pragmatic motivation of grammaticalization paths, process-oriented differences between grammaticalization, lexicalization and degrammaticalization, the question of gradualness and pace of grammaticalization, and deictics as a distinct source of grammaticalization. The articles describe various constructional and distributional changes affecting deictics, determiners, reflexives, clitics, nouns, affixes, adverbs and (auxiliary) verbs, mainly in the Germanic and Romance languages. The volume will be of great interest to historical linguists working on grammaticalization and related changes, and to all linguists working on the interface between morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse.
Motives for Language Change
Title | Motives for Language Change PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Hickey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2003-01-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1139433679 |
This specially commissioned volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself, its internal organisation, and how it is acquired and used. Accordingly, the phenomenon of language change has been approached from a variety of perspectives by linguists of many different orientations. This book, originally published in 2003, brings together an international team of leading figures from different areas of linguistics to re-examine some of the central issues in this field and also to discuss new proposals. The volume is arranged into sections, including grammaticalisation, the typological perspective, the social context of language change and contact-based explanations. It seeks to cover the subject as a whole, bearing in mind its relevance for the general analysis of language, and will appeal to a broad international readership.
Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship
Title | Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Henrich Hock |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 607 |
Release | 2009-08-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 311021430X |
Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - still be called the same language? The present book provides answers to questions like these in a straightforward way, aimed at the non-specialist, with ample illustrations from both familiar and more exotic languages. Most chapters in this new edition have been reworked, with some difficult passages removed, other passages thoroughly rewritten, and several new sections added, e.g. on language and race and on Indian writing systems. Further, the chapter notes and bibliography have all been updated. The content is engaging, focusing on topics and issues that spark student interest. Its goals are broadly pedagogical and the level and presentation are appropriate for interested beginners with little or no background in linguistics. The language coverage for examples goes well beyond what is usual for books of this kind, with a considerable amount of data from various languages of India.