This manual covers the comprehensive study of lexicalization and language change, authored by Laurel J. Brinton and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2005, this work delves into the multifaceted conceptualizations of lexicalization, offering a unified model that integrates it with grammaticalization. The book is an invaluable resource for understanding linguistic evolution, drawing on a wide array of case studies from the history of English and other Indo-European languages.
The purpose of this manual is to provide an in-depth exploration of lexicalization, making it accessible to students and scholars in historical linguistics and language change. It examines how concepts are adopted into the lexicon and explores various theoretical perspectives, including those from syntacticians, morphologists, and semanticists. Through detailed examples of present participles, multi-word verbs, adverbs, and discourse markers, the manual illustrates complex linguistic processes and their historical development.
Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has been viewed by syntacticians as the reverse process of grammaticalization, by morphologists as a routine process of word-formation, and by semanticists as the development of concrete meanings. In this up-to-date survey, Laurel Brinton and Elizabeth Traugott examine the various conceptualizations of lexicalization that have been presented in the literature. In light of contemporary work on grammaticalization, they then propose a new, unified model of lexicalization and grammaticalization. Their approach is illustrated with a variety of case studies from the history of English, including present participles, multi-word verbs, adverbs, and discourse markers, as well as some examples from other Indo-European languages. The first review of the various approaches to lexicalization, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of historical linguistics and language change.
Author: Brinton, Laurel J.
Author: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Lexicalization and Language Change
Pages: 00204 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2005-10-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780521833103
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Linguistics - General
Category: Foreign Language Study : Multi-Language Dictionaries
Lexicalization, a process of language change, has been conceptualized in a variety of ways. Broadly defined as the adoption of concepts into the lexicon, it has been viewed by syntacticians as the reverse process of grammaticalization, by morphologists as a routine process of word-formation, and by semanticists as the development of concrete meanings. In this up-to-date survey, Laurel Brinton and Elizabeth Traugott examine the various conceptualizations of lexicalization that have been presented in the literature. In light of contemporary work on grammaticalization, they then propose a new, unified model of lexicalization and grammaticalization. Their approach is illustrated with a variety of case studies from the history of English, including present participles, multi-word verbs, adverbs, and discourse markers, as well as some examples from other Indo-European languages. The first review of the various approaches to lexicalization, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars of historical linguistics and language change.
Author: Brinton, Laurel J.
Author: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Lexicalization and Language Change
Pages: 00204 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2005-10-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780521833103
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines : Linguistics - General
Category: Foreign Language Study : Multi-Language Dictionaries
