Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse

AvMaj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen,Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This volume explores the long-held assumption in linguistics that language change may proceed in a cyclical fashion. Cyclic change has recently attracted renewed interest, most notably with respect to the evolution of negation across a range of languages, but also in relation to a wide range of other phenomena. The chapters in this book take as their point of departure the hypothesis that cyclic change is pragmatically driven, and analyse forms of this change in morphosyntax, the lexicon, and semantics and pragmatics - as well as the interaction between these levels - across a range of mainly Indo-European languages and language families, but also including Semitic, Sinitic, and Austronesian languages. They also discuss the epistemological status of cycles; explore their relationship with other recognized forms of change; examine the limits of the notion of a cycle in language change; and discuss cyclicity from a cognitive-pragmatic and sociopragmatic perspective.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-05
Mått:156 x 29 x 234 mm
Vikt:901 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
Antal sidor:528
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198939054

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Mer om författaren

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).

Innehållsförteckning

1: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen;Richard Waltereit: Cyclic change in grammar and discourse: An introduction PART I Cyclic Change in Grammar 2: Johan van der Auwera;Daniel Van Olmen: Additive negation in Dutch, from synchrony to diachrony, cyclical and noncyclical 3: Chiara Fedriani;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;Mira Ariel: Prototypicalization in cyclic change 6: Ljuba Veselinova;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;Jian Wang: Morphological coordination in Sinitic languages as a form of cyclic change 10: Mira Ariel;Caterina Mauri: 'Or' cycles PART II Cyclic Change in Discourse 11: Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen: A new look at grammaticalization versus pragmaticalization in the rise of pragmatic markers: A typology of linear and non-linear 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