Meaning Change in Grammaticalization
An Enquiry into Semantic Reanalysis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 July 2006
- ISBN 9780199262601
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages298 pages
- Size 242x162x22 mm
- Weight 606 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 tables, 1 line drawing, 1 black and white illustration 0
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Short description:
This book explores the key mechanisms underlying semantic change. Meaning changes work, the author shows, through modes of reanalysis undertaken by speakers and listeners, and are particularly evident in processes of grammaticalization in which lexical items lose autonomous meaning. Regine Eckardt's approach is derived from formal semantic theory and developed in the context of several in-depth case studies. Her book will interest scholars and advanced students of historical and comparative linguistics and formal semantics.
MoreLong description:
This book explores the semantic and pragmatic mechanisms underlying grammaticalization. Regine Eckardt argues that language change frequently involves a structural reorganization at the phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels. Speakers not only master the structural aspect of such reanalyses, they also-as the author argues-keep a detailed mental record of what has happened to meaning. The author develops semantic reanalysis as the semantic correlate and tracks its effects in meaning change. Several case studies offer new insights in the architecture of conceptual thinking that is part of the human language faculty.
Professor Eckardt develops her approach in terms of formal semantic theory. She shows how neatly tailored analyses in truth-conditional compositional semantics can elucidate the structural mechanisms of meaning change. Her exposition is advanced in the context of several in-depth case studies containing data new to historical linguistics. This book will be of central interest to scholars and advanced students of historical and comparative linguistics and of formal semantics in departments of linguistics and philosophy.
The book is well written and presents its argumentation with clarity, frequently supported by illustrative examples from different languages...in this book Eckard undoubtedly makes a significant contribution to our understanding of semantic reanalysis, one which serves as a useful complement to other approaches to meaning change in grammaticalization.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Menaing Change Under Reanalysis: Previous Views
Truth Conditional Semantics
What is Going to happen
From Step to Negation: The Development of French Complex Negation Patterns
From Intensifier to Focus Particle
To Be or Not To Be a Determiner
Semantic Reanalysis: The Algebraic Backbone of Meaning Change
