Auxiliation

An Enquiry Into the Nature of Grammaticalization

• Author(s): Tania Kuteva,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 209
• ISBN_10: 0198299745
  ISBN_13: 9780198299745
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax ,

Description:... "Tania Kuteva presents a cross-linguistic study of the phenomenon. She seeks (a) to explore the cognitive forces underlying auxiliation; (b) to shed light on how auxiliation relates to discourse and to pragmatic considerations; and (c) to show the relation between the conceptual-semantic and discourse-pragmatic factors at work in the process. Combining recent grammaticalization theory with insights from the psychology of language use, the author also offers a new perspective on how grammaticalization occurs in everyday linguistic communication." "The book makes significant contributions to an explanatory theory of auxiliation, to the study of language change, and to the understanding of linguistic communication."--BOOK JACKET.