Polish in the light of grammaticalization theory

• Authors: Björn Hansen , Ana Drobnjaković
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Polish in the light of grammaticalization theoryThe paper is concerned with grammaticalization, a type of language change whereby lexical items, in specifi contexts, come to serve grammatical functions, and grammatical items acquire new grammatical functions. The aim is twofold: to shed light at the main properties of grammaticalization, and to demonstrate its applicability to Polish data. Some prominent examples in Polish are discussed: the grammaticalization of modals, imperative and avertive constructions. The paper closes with a non-exhaustive list of leads for further research into grammaticalization in Polish.

Keywords

EN

grammaticalization; Polish; grammatical markers; constructions; contact induced grammaticalization

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Slawistyki PAN
• Journal: Cognitive Studies
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 10

Dates

published

2010

online

2015-11-24

Contributors

author

Björn Hansen

author

Ana Drobnjaković

Identifiers

DOI

10.11649/cs.2010.002