01847nam a2200217Ia 4500003000500000005001700005008004100022020001800063040002400081041000800105050001900113100002000132245006800152250002800220260002800248300002700276490003900303520121600342650004101558700003001599757320240930153724.0201118s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a0-521-36684-4  cB000aCIC-UMADbspa  aeng  aR P299.G73bH6  aHopper, Paul J.10aGrammaticalization /cPaul J. Hopper y Elizabeth Closs Traugott  a1a ed. ;breimpresión  aEUA :bCambridge,c2000  a256 p. ;c15 x 22.5 cm  aCambridge textbooks in linguistics  aOrdinary lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions, and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions. Thus nouns and verbs may change over time into grammatical elements such as case markers, sentence connectives, and auxiliaries. The processes whereby these changes occur are known as "grammaticalization". This book is the first general introduction to the subject. The authors synthesize work from several areas of linguistics, in an ccount f the typical semantic, morphosyntatic, and phonological changes that accompany grammaticalization. Data is drawn from many languages, including Ewe, Finnish, French, Hindi, Japanese, Malay, and especially English, and a wide range of linguistic phenomena is discussed, including clause combining, auxiliation, case marking, erosion of inflections, and renewal of categories.
This account is unique in its wide-ranging discussion of the processes of grammaticalization. It will be a valuable and stimulating textbook not only for all linguistics interested in the development and anthropology interested in deepening their understanding of the interaction of language structure and use.  aLingüísticaxGramaticalización  aCloss Traugott, Elizabeth