Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues

by Bernd Heine

The study of grammaticalization raises a number of fundamental theoretical issues pertaining to the relation of langue and parole, creativity and automatic coding, synchrony and diachrony, categoriality and continua, typological characteristics and language-specific forms, etc., and therefore challenges some of the basic tenets of twentieth century linguistics.This two-volume work presents a number of diverse theoretical viewpoints on grammaticalization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556194013
• ISBN13: 9781556194016
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 372 Pages