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Grammaticalization research looks back on a rich history, but
recent empirical findings, as well as new insights from cognitive
science and psycholinguistics, entice researchers to reassess and
review what we know about the process. This book presents a
detailed study of the grammaticalization of motion verbs in the
Mayan languages. The focus lies on variation in the parallel
grammaticalization of motion verbs into auxiliaries and
directionals. It is demonstrated that the genetically related and
areally close languages do not always grammaticalize source items
in the same way - both from a formal and meaning perspective. The
empirical findings suggest that traditional theories on
grammaticalization do not capture the complex nature of the
phenomenon entirely. Therefore, a Network Approach to
grammaticalization is introduced which emphasizes a 'meaning-first'
account. The approach seeks to combine the conceptual with the
discourse-pragmatic while being firmly grounded in cognitive and
psychological facts. New insights into the grammaticalization
behavior of the world's languages are offered, while
well-established notions and assumptions within the
grammaticalization research paradigm are reviewed and challenged.
As a follow-up study to the global comparison of spatial
interrogatives (Studia Typologica 20), the present book examines
the spatial declarative counterparts which are provided by the
expression class of spatial deictic adverbs. In a functionally
motivated typological approach, equivalents of Early Modern English
here - hither - hence and there - thither - thence are identified
across a sample of 250 languages from all macro-areas. These are
also quantitatively assessed to extrapolate areal and global trends
of coding patterns. The formal relationships between spatial
interrogative and spatial declarative paradigms are analyzed with a
focus on the syncretism of categories and of individual cells.
Qualitative discussions of patterns precede in-depth treatments of
problematic cases and other relevant issues related to the research
topic. The quantitative results strongly point to areal linguistic
trends concerning the distribution of distinct and non-distinct
coding of the three spatial relations Place, Goal, and Source.
Additional aspects such as quantitative evaluations of
constructional complexity are addressed subsequently.
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