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Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective

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Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective - Narrog, Heiko (Editor), and Heine, Bernd (Editor)
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This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in which the same pathways of change are replicated across languages, certain language types and language areas have distinct preferences with respect to what they grammaticalize and how. Previous work has principally addressed this question with specific ...

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Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective 2018, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198795841

Hardcover