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Title Grammaticalization and pragmatics : facts, approaches, theoretical issues / edited by Corinne Rossari, Claudia Ricci and Adriana Spiridon
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 219 pages)
Series Studies in pragmatics, 1750-368X ; 5
Studies in pragmatics ; 5.
Contents Word order from Latin to French: a case of grammaticalization (from pragmatics to syntactics) or of typological coherence? / Christiane Marchello-Nizia -- Auxiliaries and grammaticalization: a case study of Germanic and Slavonic languages / Beátrice Lamiroy and Ana Drobnjakovic ́-- From the confession of ignorance to the indefinite: what impact for a theory of grammaticalization? / Marie-Jose ́Beǵuelin -- The approximators French comme, Italian come, Portuguese como and Spanish como from a grammaticalization perspective / Wiltrud Mihatsch -- The Spanish discourse marker por cierto: a non-standard case of grammaticalization / Maria Estelleś Arguedas -- The polysemy of devoir: a contrastive and diachronic analysis / Corinne Rossari [and others] -- On the diachrony of "reinforced" negation in French and Italian / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Jacqueline Visconti -- Nominal utterances with lexical repetition: effects of grammaticalization? / Angela Ferrari -- The use of anti- in contemporary French: a case of degrammaticalization? / Franziska Heyna
Summary Deals with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of complex syntactic structures in various languages (Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian and Spanish)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization.
Pragmatics.
pragmatics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Grammaticalization
Pragmatics
Form Electronic book
Author Rossari, Corinne, 1964- editor.
Ricci, Claudia, editor.
Spiridon, Adriana, editor.
ISBN 9789004253193
900425319X
1848551630
9781848551633