This book explores the semantic and pragmatic mechanisms underlying
grammaticalization. Regine Eckardt argues that language change
frequently involves a structural reorganization at the
phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels. Speakers not
only master the structural aspect of such reanalyses, they also-as
the author argues-keep a detailed mental record of what has
happened to meaning. The author develops semantic reanalysis as the
semantic correlate and tracks its effects in meaning change.
Several case studies offer new insights in the architecture of
conceptual thinking that is part of the human language faculty.
Professor Eckardt develops her approach in terms of formal semantic
theory. She shows how neatly tailored analyses in truth-conditional
compositional semantics can elucidate the structural mechanisms of
meaning change. Her exposition is advanced in the context of
several in-depth case studies containing data new to historical
linguistics.
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