Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; 54;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 August 2025
- ISBN 9780198939054
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages496 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This volume explores the idea that language change may proceed in a cyclical fashion. The chapters assume that cyclic change is pragmatically driven, and explore forms of this change in morphosyntax, the lexicon, and semantics and pragmatics - as well as the interaction between these levels - in a variety of languages.
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This volume explores the long-held assumption in linguistics that language change may proceed in a cyclical fashion. Cyclic change has recently attracted renewed interest, most notably with respect to the evolution of negation across a range of languages, but also in relation to a wide range of other phenomena. The chapters in this book take as their point of departure the hypothesis that cyclic change is pragmatically driven, and analyse forms of this change in morphosyntax, the lexicon, and semantics and pragmatics - as well as the interaction between these levels - across a range of mainly Indo-European languages and language families, but also including Semitic, Sinitic, and Austronesian languages. They also discuss the epistemological status of cycles; explore their relationship with other recognized forms of change; examine the limits of the notion of a cycle in language change; and discuss cyclicity from a cognitive-pragmatic and sociopragmatic perspective.
Table of Contents:
Cyclic change in grammar and discourse: An introduction
Part I. Cyclic Change in Grammar
Additive negation in Dutch, from synchrony to diachrony, cyclical and noncyclical
The role of pragmatics in the cyclical renewal and reinforcement of demonstratives from Latin to Italian
Conflicting mechanisms in cycles of similative demonstrative reinforcement
Prototypicalization in cyclic change
The continuative cycle
The counterfactual life cycle: Cyclicity, pragmatics, and modality
Bidirectional cycles of indirectness in Mandarin
Morphological coordination in Sinitic languages as a form of cyclic change
'Or' cycles
Part II: Cyclic Change in Discourse
A new look at grammaticalization vs pragmaticalization in the rise of pragmatic markers: A typology of linear and nonlinear forms of evolution
A typology of cyclicity: Waves and spirals, constructions and features
Clines and cycles of meaning change
The rise and fall of Occitan be(n) and pla(n): A semantic-pragmatic cycle?
The role of reanalysis in the renewal of contrast: A cyclical evolution from simultaneity to opposition in Brazilian Portuguese
Spanish approximators en plan and rollo between two centuries: Microdiachrony of a pragmatic cycle
Weakening of pragmatic force and socio-cultural factors: The pragmaticalization cycle of Italian grammatical deference
Pragmatic cycles in Spanish farewell routines
