Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers : New Issues in the Study of Language Change.
- 1st ed.
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- Studies in Pragmatics Series ; v.18 .
- Studies in Pragmatics Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures, Graphs and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1. Introduction: New Insights in Grammaticalization Studies (Pons Bordería) -- Chapter 2. Modeling Language Change with Constructional Networks (Closs Traugott) -- Chapter 3. Cyclic Phenomena in the Evolution of Pragmatic Markers. Examples from Romance (Hansen) -- Chapter 4. The Historical Route of eso sí as a Contrastive Connective (Llopis Cardona) -- Chapter 5. Grammaticalization, Distance, Immediacy and Discourse Traditions: The Case of Portuguese caso (Gerards and Kabatek) -- Chapter 6. Paradigmaticisation through Formal Resemblance: a History of the Intensifier bien in Spanish Discourse Markers (Octavio de Toledo y Huerta) -- Chapter 7. New Challenges in the Theory of Grammaticalization. Evidence from the Rise of Spanish Counter-Argumentative Markers no obstante, no contrastante and no embargante (Garachana) -- Chapter 8. The Evolution of Temporal Adverbs into Consecutive Connectives and the Role of Discourse Traditions: The Case of It. allora and Sp. entonces (Borreguero Zuloaga) -- Chapter 9. Different Sensitivity to Variation and Change: Italian Pragmatic Marker dai vs. Discourse Marker allora (Molinelli) -- Chapter 10. Insubordination, Abtönung, and the Next Move in Interaction. Main-Clause-Initial puisque in French (Detges and Gévaudan) -- Chapter 11. Paths of Grammaticalization: Beyond the LP/RP Debate (Pons Bordería) -- Chapter 12. On Argumentative Relations in Spanish: Experimental Evidence on the Grammaticalization of Cause-Consequence Discourse Markers (Recio, Nadal and Loureda) -- Index.
Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers offers a comprehensive account of the most promising new directions in the field of grammaticalization. From major theoretical issues to hardly addressed experimental questions, this volume explores new ways to expand - or challenge - current ideas on grammaticalization.