Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization

This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created. Leading scholars from around the world introduce and discuss the core theoretical and methodological bases of grammaticalization, report on work in the field, and point to promising directions for new research. They represent every relevant theoretical perspective and approach.

Research on grammaticalization and its role in linguistic change encompasses work on languages from every major linguistic family. Its results offer valuable insights for all theoretical frameworks, including generative, construction, and cognitive grammar, and relate to work in fields such as phonology, sociolinguistics, and language acquisition. The handbook is divided into five parts, of which the first two are devoted to theory and method, the third and fourth to work in linguistic domains, classes, and cateogories, and the fifth to case studies of grammaticalization in a range of languages. It will be an indispensable source of information and inspiration for all those who wish to know more about this fascinating and important field.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• The Contributors


• Abbreviations


• 1: Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine: Introduction


• Part I: Grammaticalization and Linguistic Theory


• 2: Elizabeth Closs Traugott: Grammaticalization and Mechanisms of Change


• 3: Olga Fischer: Grammaticalization as Analogically Driven Change


• 4: Elly van Gelderen: Grammaticalization and Generative Grammar: a difficult liaison


• 5: Peter Harder and Kasper Boye: Grammaticalization and Functional Linguistics


• 6: Joan L. Bybee: Usage-based Theory and Grammaticalization


• 7: Ronald W. Langacker: Grammaticalization and Cognitive Grammar


• 8: Nikolas Gisborne and Amanda Patten: Construction Grammaar and Grammaticalization


• 9: Walter Bisang: Grammaticalization and Linguistic Typology


• 10: Terttu Nevalainen and Minna Palander-Collin: Grammaticalization and Sociolinguistics


• 11: Holger Diessel: Grammaticalization and Language Acquisition


• 12: Andrew D. M. Smith: Grammaticalization and Language Evolution


• 13: Östen Dahl: Grammaticalization and Linguistic Complexity


• 14: Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent: Grammaticalization and Directionality


• 15: Marianne Mithun: Grammaticalization and Explanation


• 16: Brian D. Joseph: Grammaticalization: A General Critique


• Part II: Methodological Issues


• 17: Shana Poplack: Grammaticalization and Linguistic Variation


• 18: Rena Torres Cacoullos and James A. Walker: Collocations in Grammaticalization and Variation


• 19: Christian Mair: Grammaticalization and Corpus Linguistics


• 20: Helena Raumolin-Brunberg and Arja Nurmi: Grammaticalization and Language Change in the Individual


• 21: Bernd Kortmann and Agnes Schneider: Grammaticalization in Non-Standard Varieties of English


• 22: Yaron Matras: Grammaticalization and Language Contact


• 23: Bernd Heine and Tania Kuteva: The Areal Dimension of Grammaticalization


• 24: Béatrice Lamiroy and Walter De Mulder: Degrees of Grammaticalization Across Languages


• 25: Heiko Narrog and Johan van der Auwera: Grammaticalization and Semantic Maps


• Part III: Domains of Grammaticalization


• 26: Anne Wichmann: Grammaticalization and Prosody


• 27: Martin Haspelmath: The Gradual Coelescence into 'Words' in Grammaticalization


• 28: Ilse Wischer: Grammaticalization and Word Formation


• 29: Scott DeLancey: Grammaticalization and Syntax - A Functional View


• 30: Chaofen Sun and Elizabeth Closs Traugott: Grammaticalization and Word Order Change


• 31: Regine Eckardt: Grammaticalization and Semantic Change


• 32: Steve Nicolle: Pragmatic Aspects of Grammaticalization


• 33: Richard Waltereit: Grammaticalization and Discourse


• 34: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen: Grammaticalization and Conversation


• 35: Douglas Lightfoot: Grammaticalization and Lexicalization


• 36: Gabriele Diewald: Grammaticaliza

  About the author

  Heiko Narrog is Professor at the Graduate School of International Cualtural Studies, Tohoku University. He received a PhD in Japanese Studies from the Ruhr University Bochum in 1997, and a PhD in Language Studies from Tokyo University in 2002. His publications inclde Modality in Japanese and the Layered Structure of the Clause (Benjamins, 2009), and Modality, Subjectivity, and Semantic Change: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (OUP, 2012) as well as numerous articles in linguistic typology, semantics and language change, and Japanese linguistics.
  
  Bernd Heine is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of African Studies and Egyptology, University of Cologne. He has held visiting professorships at universities across the world, and in 2009 received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Evolutionary Linguistics Association. His many publications include African Languages: An Introduction (CUP, 200), A Linguistic Geography of Africa (CUP, 2008), and the OUP volumes The Changing Languages of Europe (2006) and The Genesis of Grammar: A Reconstruction (2007), both with Tania Kuteva.
  
  Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine are co-editors of the OUP volumes The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis (2010; second edition 2015) and Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective (2018), and o-authors of the OUP textbook Grammaticalization (2021).

  Summary

  This book presents a critical assessment of research on grammaticalization, a central element in the process by which grammars are created. Leading scholars discuss its core theoretical and methodological bases, report on work in the field, and point to directions for new research. They represent every relevant theoretical perspective and approach.

  Report

  Review from previous edition The Handbook has something to offer for all scholars of language change, regardless of their familiarity with grammaticalisation studies. It contains several excellent introductory chapters into the field ... it is not just an excellent comprehensive state of the art, but through many of its chapters it also contributes to and furthers ongoing debates, including that of the validity of grammaticalisation itself. Tine Breban, Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Product details

• Authors: Heiko (Associate Professor of Linguistics Narrog
• Assisted by: Bernd Heine (Editor), Heiko Narrog (Editor), Narrog Heiko (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2021
• EAN: 9780192895851
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289585-1
• No. of pages: 948
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology