Grammaticalization

University of Chicago Press

1991

x, 318 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 278–302) and indexes

0226325164

Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Some Notions of Grammaticalization -- 1.2. Previous Approaches -- 1.3. The Present Study -- 2. Cognitive Processes -- 2.1. On the Motivation of Grammaticalization -- 2.2. Source Structures -- 2.3. From Source to Target -- 2.4. Metaphor -- 3. Context-Induced Reinterpretations -- 3.1. Discontinuity versus Continuity -- 3.2. Token versus Type -- 3.3. From Metonymy to Metaphor -- 3.4. Metaphor, Context, and Creativity -- 4. Outline of a Framework -- 4.1. Macrostructure versus Microstructure -- 4.2. On the Relation between Focal Senses -- 4.3. Some Revisions -- 4.4. Previous Models -- 4.5. Localism -- 4.6. Natural Grammar -- 5. From Lexical to Grammatical Concepts -- 5.1. Patterns of Transfer -- 5.2. Generalizations -- 5.3. Linguistic Implications -- 5.4. Discussion -- 5.5. N-Adpositions versus V-Adpositions -- 6. From Less to More Grammatical Concepts -- 6.1. Alienability: His Children Are Not His Children -- 6.2. A Conceptual Network of Allative Case Marking -- 6.3. The Function Contiguity Hypothesis -- 6.4. Degrees of Grammaticalization -- 6.5. On the Significance of Image-Schema Preservation -- 6.6. A Multidimensional Cognitive Space? -- 6.7. Conclusions -- 7. Some "Abstract Worlds" -- 7.1. The World of Probabilities -- 7.2. The World of Text -- 7.3. The World of Expectations -- 7.4. On the Ubiquity of Metaphor -- 8. The Linguistic Cycle -- 8.1. Some General Observations -- 8.2. Reanalysis -- 8.3. Dependency 8.4. Grammaticalization Chains -- 8.5. Grammaticalization and Discourse Role -- 8.6. Recategorialization 8.7. From Discourse Pragmatics to Grammar -- 8.8. The Linguistic Cycle -- 9. Panchronic Grammar -- 9.1. BACK in So -- 9.2. On Some Case Functions of Four German Prepositions -- 9.3. Conclusions

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