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Meaning Change in Grammaticalization

Name: Meaning Change in Grammaticalization
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199262601
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An Enquiry into Semantic Reanalysis

Autor: Regine Eckardt

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Oxford University Press

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This book explores the semantic and pragmatic mechanisms underlying grammaticalization. Regine Eckar...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Regine Eckardt

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2006

strony

298

EAN

9780199262601

ISBN

0199262608

Enbook ID

04530809

Wydawca

Oxford University Press

Waga

606

Wymiary

162 x 242 x 23

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This book explores the semantic and pragmatic mechanisms underlying grammaticalization. Regine Eckardt argues that language change frequently involves a structural reorganization at the phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels. Speakers not only master the structural aspect of such reanalyses, they also-as the author argues-keep a detailed mental record of what has happened to meaning. The author develops semantic reanalysis as the semantic correlate and tracks its effects in meaning change. Several case studies offer new insights in the architecture of conceptual thinking that is part of the human language faculty. Professor Eckardt develops her approach in terms of formal semantic theory. She shows how neatly tailored analyses in truth-conditional compositional semantics can elucidate the structural mechanisms of meaning change. Her exposition is advanced in the context of several in-depth case studies containing data new to historical linguistics. This book will be of central interest to scholars and advanced students of historical and comparative linguistics and of formal semantics in departments of linguistics and philosophy.