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This volume advances our understanding of two highly debated
aspects of grammaticalization: its relation to
(inter)subjectification and its directionality. These aspects are
studied with respect to such phenomena as auxiliaries, discourse
markers, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns. Bringing together
a wide range of languages, the collection provides insight into the
crucial dimensions of grammaticalization research.
This volume advances our understanding of two highly debated
aspects of grammaticalization: its relation to
(inter)subjectification and its directionality. These aspects are
studied with respect to such phenomena as auxiliaries, discourse
markers, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns. Bringing together
a wide range of languages, the collection provides insight into the
crucial dimensions of grammaticalization research.
In Paradigm and Paradox, Dirk Geeraerts formulated many of the
basic tenets that were to form what Cognitive Linguistics is today.
Change of Paradigms -New Paradoxes links back to this seminal work,
exploring which of the original theories and ideas still stand
strong, which new questions have arisen and which ensuing new
paradoxes need to be addressed. It thus reveals how Cognitive
Linguistics has developed and diversified over the past decades.
This collected volume presents radically new directions which are
emerging in cognitive lexical semantics research. A number of
papers re-ignite the polysemy vs. monosemy debate, and testify to
the fact that polysemy is no longer simply taken for granted, but
is currently a much more contested issue than it was in the 1980s
and 1990s. Other papers offer fresh perspectives on the prototype
structure of lexical categories, while generally accepted notions
about the radial network structure of categories are questioned in
papers on the development of word meaning in child language
acquisition and in diachrony. Additional topics include the
interaction of lexical and constructional meaning, and the
relationship between word meanings and the contexts in which the
words are encountered. This book is of interest to semanticists and
cognitive linguists, as well as to scholars working in the broader
field of cognitive science.
This volume aims to arrive at a fine-grained and grammar-based
understanding of the notions of (inter-)subjectivity and
(inter-)subjectification in their application to grammaticalization
research. In terms of linguistic theory, position is taken
vis-a-vis existing approaches to (inter-)subjectification which are
either too narrow or too general by addressing two questions: (i)
what is the relation between (inter-)subjectivity and pragmatics,
and (ii) on what grounds can subjective and intersubjective
meanings be distinguished? In the descriptive sections of the
volume, these theoretical considerations are confronted with
extensive analytical, and often also quantitative, study of
empirical data mainly from English but also from Romance languages.
The focus in these case studies is on the analytical and diachronic
relations between subjectivity and intersubjectivity, with
particular emphasis on the question how linguistic syntagms may
shift towards the expression of meanings of which the hearer is an
essential part. The domains covered include adverbials and modals,
but also the noun phrase, to date a relatively under-researched
area in grammaticalization studies. Together these three areas
ensure broad verification of existing hypotheses about the relative
order in which subjectification and intersubjectification take
place. This volume is mainly of interest to researchers and
graduate students with a special interest in subjectification,
intersubjectification and grammaticalization, and with a general
interest in language change. The volume will also be welcomed by
functional linguists (in a broad sense), since it is the first to
bring eclectic functionalists' reflections to bear so explicitly on
grammaticalization.
In the past two decades, the study of prepositions has grown
steadily. The papers collected in this volume bring together the
multifaceted perspectives on prepositions that have been developed
in contemporary linguistics. Some papers mainly discuss syntactic
(and morphological) aspects of prepositions; other papers
predominantly focus on cognitive aspects. All the papers are,
however, concerned with the semantics of prepositions. This volume
evolved from a workshop on prepositions held at Hamburg University
on June 26 and 27, 1998.
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