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This volume explores the idea that language change may proceed in a cyclical fashion. The chapters assume that cyclic change is pragmatically driven, and explore forms of this change in morphosyntax, the lexicon, and semantics and pragmatics - as well as the interaction between these levels - in a variety of languages.
List of contents
- 1: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Richard Waltereit: Cyclic change in grammar and discourse: An introduction
- Part I. Cyclic Change in Grammar
- 2: Johan van der Auwera and Daniel Van Olmen: Additive negation in Dutch, from synchrony to diachrony, cyclical and noncyclical
- 3: Chiara Fedriani and Piera Molinelli: The role of pragmatics in the cyclical renewal and reinforcement of demonstratives from Latin to Italian
- 4: Urd Vindenes: Conflicting mechanisms in cycles of similative demonstrative reinforcement
- 5: Ittamar Erb and Mira Ariel: Prototypicalization in cyclic change
- 6: Ljuba Veselinova and Anastasia Panova: The continuative cycle
- 7: Ezra la Roi: The counterfactual life cycle: Cyclicity, pragmatics, and modality
- 8: Yueh Hsin Kuo: Bidirectional cycles of indirectness in Mandarin
- 9: Haiping Long and Jian Wang: Morphological coordination in Sinitic languages as a form of cyclic change
- 10: Mira Ariel and Caterina Mauri: 'Or' cycles
- Part II: Cyclic Change in Discourse
- 11: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen: A new look at grammaticalization vs pragmaticalization in the rise of pragmatic markers: A typology of linear and nonlinear forms of evolution
- 12: Giulio Scivoletto: A typology of cyclicity: Waves and spirals, constructions and features
- 13: Ruti Bardenstein: Clines and cycles of meaning change
- 14: Sandra Paoli: The rise and fall of Occitan be(n) and pla(n): A semantic-pragmatic cycle?
- 15: Luísa Ferrari: The role of reanalysis in the renewal of contrast: A cyclical evolution from simultaneity to opposition in Brazilian Portuguese
- 16: Adrià Pardo Llibrer: Spanish approximators en plan and rollo between two centuries: Microdiachrony of a pragmatic cycle
- 17: Chiara Ghezzi: Weakening of pragmatic force and socio-cultural factors: The pragmaticalization cycle of Italian grammatical deference
- 18: Ana Llopis Cardona: Pragmatic cycles in Spanish farewell routines
About the author
Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen has been Professor of Linguistics and Pragmatics at the University of Manchester since 2007. She received her PhD and her Higher Doctorate from the University of Copenhagen in 1996 and 2008 respectively. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and a fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. Her book
The Structure of Modern French: A Student Grammar was published by OUP in 2016.
Richard Waltereit has been Professor of Romance Linguistics (French) at the Humboldt-University Berlin since 2017, having previously held positions at the University of Tübingen and Newcastle University. He was awarded his PhD in 1997 from the Freie Universität Berlin and his Habilitation in 2002 from Tübingen. His many publications include
Reflexive Marking in the History of French (Benjamins, 2012).
Summary
This volume explores the idea that language change may proceed in a cyclical fashion. The chapters assume that cyclic change is pragmatically driven, and explore forms of this change in morphosyntax, the lexicon, and semantics and pragmatics - as well as the interaction between these levels - in a variety of languages.
