A Typological Approach to Grammaticalization and Lexicalization

East Meets West

• Author(s): Janet Zhiqun Xing,
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Pages: 405
• ISBN_10: 3110637421
  ISBN_13: 9783110637427
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Foreign Language Study / Chinese , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative ,

Description:... Based on comparative analyses of diachronic data, the articles in this volume address both theoretical and methodological issues in the study of grammaticalization and lexicalization in both Eastern and Western languages. The central question raised and discussed in this volume is how, if any, typological properties of the two genetically unrelated language families interact with the processes of grammaticalization and lexicalization.