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Limits of Grammaticalization
Av Hopper Paul J. Hopper, Giacalone Ramat Anna Giacalone Ramat
E-bok, 1998
1762 kr
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The earliest use of the term “grammaticalization” was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in “he keeps bees”) become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in “he keeps looking at me”). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a …
Voice: Form and Function
Av Hopper Paul J. Hopper, Fox Barbara A. Fox
E-bok, 1994
1830 kr
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The volume''s central concern is grammatical voice, traditionally known as diathesis, and its classical manifestations as Active, Middle, and Passive. While numerous problems in the meaning, syntax, and morphology of these categories in Indo-European remain unsolved, their counterparts in more …
Studies in Descriptive and Historical Linguistics
Festschrift for Winfred P. Lehmann
E-bok, 1977
2165 kr
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This volume of articles was prepared in honor of Winfred P. Lehmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The papers are presented in two sections: I. Studies in Descriptive Linguistics, and II. Studies in Historical Linguistics. The volume contains contributions by R.M.W. Dixon, Ralph M. Goodman, …
Tense-Aspect
Between semantics & pragmatics
E-bok, 1982
1830 kr
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The verbal categories of tense and aspect have been studied traditionally from the point of view of their reference to the timing and time-perspective of the speaker’s reported experience. They are universal categories both in terms of the semantic-functional domain they cover as well as in terms …
Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Av Hopper Paul J. Hopper, Bybee Joan L. Bybee
E-bok, 2001
1981 kr
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A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used …