Thoughts on grammaticalization / / Christian Lehmann.

• Superior document: Classics in Linguistics ; 1
• VerfasserIn: Lehmann, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin, Germany : : Language Science Press,, 2015.; ©2015
• प्रकाशन का वर्ष : 2015
• संस्करण: 3rd edition.
• भाषा: English
• श्रृंखला: Classics in linguistics (Berlin, Germany) ; 1.
• भौतिक वर्णन: 1 online resource (214 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s).
• टिप्पणियाँ: First edition published in 1995 ; second edition published in 2002.

After a short review of the history of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ordered by grammatical domains such as the verbal, pronominal and nominal sphere and clause level relations. The final chapter presents a theory of grammaticalization which is based on the autonomy of the linguistic sign with respect to the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes. This is the basis of the structural parameters that constitute grammaticalization. They are operationalized to the point of rendering degrees of grammaticalization measurable.