Across the boundaries on the status of grammaticalisation

• Authors: Der Cs.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with controversal issues of grammaticalization discourse, involving the status of grammaticalization as a distinct process and the unidirectionality principle. We demonstrate that among the main factors of the dispute there is a deep conflict between functionalists and formalists, which is partially yielded by their different account for the concept of 'science'. We make an attempt to revise most of the degrammaticalization examples in Newmeyer's Language Form and Language Function, to show that they are not valid. By this we try to verify that there is no ground for eliminating the unidirectionality principle, although there are a few real cases of degrammaticalization. We emphasize that the processes grammaticalisation is usually reduced to constitute a qualitatively new phenomenon.

Keywords

EN

GRAMMATICALIZATION; THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Nyelvtudomanyi Kozlemenyek (Linguistic Studies)
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 101
• Pages: 182-194
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Der Cs.

• Cs. Der, address not given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05HUAAAA00581486