Areal Typology and Grammaticalization

Bisang, Walter

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“…Heine / Claudi / Hünnemeyer 1991, Bybee / Perkins / Pagliuca 1994, Bisang 1996, in jüngster Zeit auch in den Einzelphilologien aufgenommen und weiterentwickelt.…”

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Entwicklungen und Fragen in der Grammatikalisierungsforschung [Developments and questions in grammaticalization research ]

Diewald¹

2004

Zeitschrift Für Germanistische Linguistik

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As the introductory paper of a collection of articles, this contribution has a threefold purpose. First, it briefly outlines the major developments of research in grammaticalization during the last decades, the most promising of which can be found in approaches combining grammaticalization with language comparison, diachronic reconstruction, and linguistic variation, and in models taking into account the role of contexts and constructions in grammaticalization processes. Second, this contribution lists problems and areas of dispute that have arisen inside the framework, and criticism that has been put forward from outside. Naturally, the main intention of this section cannot be to come up with final solutions to any of these questions; instead it suggests an evaluation of the scope, relevance and justification of single items of the debate. The third part summarizes the six papers presented in this volume, highlighting connections and points of convergence between them, and pointing out their relevance to the open questions mentioned before. 0.Stand der Forschung 1

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“…Heine / Claudi / Hünnemeyer 1991, Bybee / Perkins / Pagliuca 1994, Bisang 1996, in jüngster Zeit auch in den Einzelphilologien aufgenommen und weiterentwickelt.…”

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Entwicklungen und Fragen in der Grammatikalisierungsforschung [Developments and questions in grammaticalization research ]

Diewald¹

2004

Zeitschrift Für Germanistische Linguistik

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“…they are bound morphs. An unresolved issue is whether those lexical morphemes which appear in a fixed position in a high number of complex words, always conveying the same meaning, are to be analysed as compound constituents or as derivational affixes, given the fact that it is often the case that in the languages of East and South-East Asia there is no (regular) formal distinction between lexical morphemes and grammatical morphemes (Bisang 1996).…”

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A Construction Morphology account of derivation in Mandarin Chinese

Arcodia

2010

Morphology

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In the Chinese language, morphologically complex words have been attested since the remote past of the language, including both stem-modifying processes and agglutination of morphemes, mostly lexical and free in the classical language. However, in Chinese, grammaticalization typically entails no phonological alteration (Bisang, Studies in Language 20:519À597, 1996) and it is still a matter of debate whether compounding and derivation are two distinct phenomena in Modern Mandarin Chinese (see, among others, Pan et al, The research on word formation in Chinese, 2004). In this paper we shall tackle this issue in the framework of Construction Morphology (Booij, In: Dressler et al (eds) Morphology in demarcations, 2005; In: Montermini et al (eds) Selected proceedings of the 5th Décembrettes: morphology in Toulouse, 2007), also taking into account the diachronic perspective. Our proposal is that it is possible to analyse as instances of grammaticalized derivational formants the right-hand elements in word formation schemas such as [[X] X 性] N [[X] X xìng] N Ôthe quality of X/connected with XÕ (抽象性 chō uxiàngxìng ÔÔabstractnessÕÕ), which undergo processes of semantic shift analogous to those of e.g. English -hood. Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010relational meaning, as e.g. Eng. 1 bakery from (to) bake, which can indeed be distinguished from (root) compounding. Our claim is that derivational affixes in Mandarin are the evolution of compound constituents, appearing in a fixed position with a certain meaning in a number of complex words. In order for a lexeme to become a derivational affix, it has to undergo a shift in meaning, which can be either more ''general'' than when used in other contexts, or it can be the extension of one of the possible (non-core) meanings of the lexeme.In a Construction Morphology framework (Booij

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“…Chinese xin can mean 'letter, letters, a letter, the letter, etc' according to a given context. This high degree of indeterminateness of nouns is a very important characteristic of East and Southeast Asian languages (Bisang 1993(Bisang , 1996 which is crucial to the existence of classifiers.…”

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“…Greenberg (1975), for example, suggested that classifiers may evolve into gender or noun class markers, and a study by Hopper (1986: 342) indicates that in Malay classifiers may also serve as topic markers in that they typically occur with "potential topics". For a more extensive treatment of the grammaticalisation of classifiers the reader is referred to Bisang (1993Bisang ( , 1996. 23.…”

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When can a language have adjectives? An implicational universal

Rijkhoff¹

2000

Approaches to the Typology of Word Classes

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Areal Typology and Grammaticalization

Cited by 140 publications

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Entwicklungen und Fragen in der Grammatikalisierungsforschung [Developments and questions in grammaticalization research ]

Entwicklungen und Fragen in der Grammatikalisierungsforschung [Developments and questions in grammaticalization research ]

A Construction Morphology account of derivation in Mandarin Chinese

When can a language have adjectives? An implicational universal

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