Grammaticalization

by Heiko Narrog and Bernd Heine

This textbook introduces and explains the fundamental issues, major research questions, and current approaches in the study of grammaticalization - the development of new grammatical forms from lexical items, and of further grammatical functions from existing grammatical forms. Grammaticalization has been a vibrant research field in recent years, and has proven effective in explaining a wide range of phenomena; it has even been claimed that the only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198747853
• ISBN13: 9780198747857
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.8"