A usage-based theory of grammatical status and grammaticalization
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A usage-based theory of grammatical status and grammaticalization. / Kasper Boye & Peter Harder.
In: Language, Vol. 88, No. 1, 03.2012, p. 1-44.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - A usage-based theory of grammatical status and grammaticalization
AU - Harder, Peter
AU - Boye, Kasper
AU - Kasper Boye & Peter Harder
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - This article proposes a new way of understanding grammatical status and grammaticalization as distinctive types of linguistic phenomena. The approach is usage-based and links up structural and functional, as well as synchronic and diachronic aspects of the issue. The proposal brings a range of hitherto disparate phenomena into a motivated relationship, while certain well-entrenched criteria (such as ‘closed paradigms’) are shown to be incidental to grammatical status and grammaticalization. The central idea is that grammar is constituted by expressions that by linguistic convention are ancillary and as such discursively secondary in relation to other linguistic expressions, and that grammaticalization is the kind of change that gives rise to such expressions
AB - This article proposes a new way of understanding grammatical status and grammaticalization as distinctive types of linguistic phenomena. The approach is usage-based and links up structural and functional, as well as synchronic and diachronic aspects of the issue. The proposal brings a range of hitherto disparate phenomena into a motivated relationship, while certain well-entrenched criteria (such as ‘closed paradigms’) are shown to be incidental to grammatical status and grammaticalization. The central idea is that grammar is constituted by expressions that by linguistic convention are ancillary and as such discursively secondary in relation to other linguistic expressions, and that grammaticalization is the kind of change that gives rise to such expressions
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Grammatical status
KW - Grammaticalization
KW - Grammaticalization
KW - Grammatical status
KW - User-based theory
M3 - Journal article
VL - 88
SP - 1
EP - 44
JO - Language
JF - Language
SN - 0097-8507
IS - 1
ER -
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