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Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization

Volume 1: Functional Change

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Riccardo Giomi

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Meaning change in grammaticalization has been variously described in terms of decreasing semantic weight and increasing generality, abstraction, (inter)subjectivity or discourse orientation. The author shows that all these trends are subsumed by the notion of scope increase along a precise hierarchy of semantic and pragmatic layers of grammatical organization such as endorsed by Functional Discourse Grammar. The scope-increase hypothesis is immune from the exceptions and veritable counterexamples to all the aforementioned generalizations and has the decisive advantage of being more objectively measurable, given its direct bearing on actual linguistic structure. The extremely rare exceptions to this generalization are also addressed and found to always result from a type of change independent from grammaticalization – the merger of two separate speech acts.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-02
Mått155 x 235 x 33 mm
Vikt870 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBrill's Studies in Historical Linguistics
Antal sidor434
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004520448

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Riccardo Giomi, Ph.D. (2020), University of Lisbon, is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Liège. He has authored several publications on Functional Discourse Grammar, among which Headedness and modification in Functional Discourse Grammar (Glossa 5.1, 2020) and The place of interpersonal lexemes in linguistic theory, with special reference to Functional Discourse Grammar (Corpus Pragmatics 5.2, 2021).

9789004520448AcknowledgementsList of Tables and FiguresAbbreviations1 Introduction1.1 Theoretical Setting and Scope of the Research1.2 State of the Art and Research Questions2 Functional Discourse Grammar2.1 General Features2.2 Layered Structure2.3 Four Levels of Grammatical Analysis2.4 Summary3 Grammaticalization between Structure and Context3.1 Grammaticalization: History, Basic Concepts and Matters of Controversy3.2 Lehmann’s Parameters and Processes3.3 Paradigmatic Change3.4 Grammaticalization as Context-Induced Reinterpretation3.5 Towards an FDG Theory of Grammaticalization4 Previous Approaches to Functional Change4.1 Meaning Generalization4.2 From Concrete to Abstract Meaning4.3 From “Material” to “Relational” Meaning4.4 Loss of Predicativity/Referentiality4.5 Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Discourse Orientation4.6 Summary5 Grammaticalization as Scope Increase5.1 Grammar and Conceptualization in FDG and in Other Functional Models5.2 Scope Increase in FDG5.3 Putative Counterexamples to the Scope-Increase Hypothesis5.4 Refining the Scope-Increase Hypothesis5.5 Conclusions and Outline of the Following Chapters6 The Grammaticalization of Semantic, Pragmatic and Rhetorical Functions6.1 Introduction6.2 The Diachronic Development of Function Markers6.3 Conclusions7 When Scope Does Not Matter7.1 Theoretical Preliminaries7.2 Secondary Grammaticalization Changes Unrelated to Scope Increase7.3 Discussion and Conclusions8 Primary Grammaticalization: What Is Lexical and What Is Grammatical?8.1 Introduction8.2 The Lexical/Grammatical Dichotomy in FDG8.3 Keizer’s Parameters Revisited8.4 Lexical Roots and Derivational Affixes8.5 Primary Grammaticalization without Lexemes: The Case of Non-verbal Predication8.6 Summary9 ConclusionsReferencesLanguage IndexSubject Index