Mismatch: Grammar distortion and grammaticalization
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Livio Gaeta
Abstract
The paper investigates the potentially distorting impact of grammaticalization on grammar through the analysis of different types of synchronic form-meaning mismatches which may result from the expansion of a grammaticalization process. Grammaticalization may induce mismatches as a consequence of the development of abnormal structures or new constructions incompatible with the general patterns of the language. Mismatches may also be due to an unchanged residue of grammaticalization, which may derive either from inertial resistance or from a superordinate restriction which prevents the grammaticalization wave from extending to specific domains. Finally, mismatches may also be the result of language contact, either by making use of alternative devices of a foreign origin or by preventing the grammaticalization of native structures due to the introduction of ready-made borrowed constructions.
Abstract
The paper investigates the potentially distorting impact of grammaticalization on grammar through the analysis of different types of synchronic form-meaning mismatches which may result from the expansion of a grammaticalization process. Grammaticalization may induce mismatches as a consequence of the development of abnormal structures or new constructions incompatible with the general patterns of the language. Mismatches may also be due to an unchanged residue of grammaticalization, which may derive either from inertial resistance or from a superordinate restriction which prevents the grammaticalization wave from extending to specific domains. Finally, mismatches may also be the result of language contact, either by making use of alternative devices of a foreign origin or by preventing the grammaticalization of native structures due to the introduction of ready-made borrowed constructions.
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
