On the frills of grammaticalization
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Tania Kuteva
Abstract
The paper shows that contact-induced grammaticalization is frequently accompanied by frills, that is, by linguistic accretion instead of the commonly expected attrition. This fact adds weight to the important insights gained in recent grammaticalization studies that both language-internal and contact-induced grammaticalization can be analysed in terms of the same set of definitional criteria and that contact-induced grammaticalization always entails language-internal grammaticalization and, hence, the same factors operate in both kinds of change. The explanation I propose for linguistic accretion in contact-induced grammaticalization capitalizes on the notion of overlap acknowledged in processes of language-internal grammaticalization. In contact-induced grammaticalization, I show that overlap is manifested both as a diachronic stage of the grammaticalization development and as a synchronic buffer zone in geographical space.
Abstract
The paper shows that contact-induced grammaticalization is frequently accompanied by frills, that is, by linguistic accretion instead of the commonly expected attrition. This fact adds weight to the important insights gained in recent grammaticalization studies that both language-internal and contact-induced grammaticalization can be analysed in terms of the same set of definitional criteria and that contact-induced grammaticalization always entails language-internal grammaticalization and, hence, the same factors operate in both kinds of change. The explanation I propose for linguistic accretion in contact-induced grammaticalization capitalizes on the notion of overlap acknowledged in processes of language-internal grammaticalization. In contact-induced grammaticalization, I show that overlap is manifested both as a diachronic stage of the grammaticalization development and as a synchronic buffer zone in geographical space.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Address list vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction: New perspectives on grammaticalization 1
- Grammaticalization and the areal factor: The perspective of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages 15
- On the grammaticalization of 'come' and 'go' into markers of textual connectivity 37
- Grammaticalization, typology and semantics: Expanding the agenda 61
- Mismatch: Grammar distortion and grammaticalization 103
- Areal convergence in grammaticalization processes 129
- The grammaticalization of nominalizers in Japanese and Korean: A contrastive study 169
- On the frills of grammaticalization 189
- Nominalizations in Bodic languages 219
- On the rise and fall of Korean nominalizers 239
- The grammaticalization of clausal nominalizers in Burmese 265
- The grammaticalization cline of cardinal numerals and numeral systems 289
- The development of nominalizers in East Asian and Tibeto-Burman languages 309
- Index of names 343
- Index of languages 348
- Index of subjects 350
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Address list vii
- Preface ix
- Introduction: New perspectives on grammaticalization 1
- Grammaticalization and the areal factor: The perspective of East and mainland Southeast Asian languages 15
- On the grammaticalization of 'come' and 'go' into markers of textual connectivity 37
- Grammaticalization, typology and semantics: Expanding the agenda 61
- Mismatch: Grammar distortion and grammaticalization 103
- Areal convergence in grammaticalization processes 129
- The grammaticalization of nominalizers in Japanese and Korean: A contrastive study 169
- On the frills of grammaticalization 189
- Nominalizations in Bodic languages 219
- On the rise and fall of Korean nominalizers 239
- The grammaticalization of clausal nominalizers in Burmese 265
- The grammaticalization cline of cardinal numerals and numeral systems 289
- The development of nominalizers in East Asian and Tibeto-Burman languages 309
- Index of names 343
- Index of languages 348
- Index of subjects 350
