Grammaticalization and Linguistic Analysis

Bernd Heine; Heiko Narrog

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199544004.013.0016

Grammaticalization and Linguistic Analysis

Bernd Heine, Heiko Narrog

LIT - Department of Global Humanities

University of Cologne

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Grammaticalization can be understood as a process by which grammar is created; more narrowly, it is defined as the development from lexical to grammatical forms, and from grammatical to even more grammatical forms. This chapter shows that the main goal of grammaticalization theory is to understand why grammar in general and functional categories in particular is structured the way it is. Typological generalizations on grammatical change provide a relevant tool for explaining structural properties of grammatical categories.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191743849
ISBN (Print)	9780199544004
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199544004.013.0016
Publication status	Published - 2012 Sept 18

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Functional categories
Grammar
Grammaticalization theory

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