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Book SynopsisBeyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers offers a comprehensive account of the most promising new directions in the vast field of grammaticalization studies. From major theoretical issues to hardly addressed experimental questions, this volume explores new ways to expand, refine or even challenge current ideas on grammaticalization. All contributions, written by leading experts in the fields of grammaticalization and discourse markers, explore issues such as: the impact of Construction Grammar into language change; cyclicity as a driving force of change; the importance of positions and discourse units as predictors of grammaticalization; a renewed way of thinking about philological considerations, or the role of Experimental Pragmatics for hypothesis checking.
Trade Review"To conclude, the volume constitutes a welcome addition to the literature on DMs and grammaticalization, discussing some theoretical aspects of both, but most of all providing a range of semantic reconstructions and insights into the sociolinguistic dynamics of grammatical change." - Bernd Heine, University of Cologne, in: Journal of Pragmatics 148 (2019), pp. 125-127
Table of ContentsList of Figures, Graphs and Tables 1 Introduction Salvador Pons Bordería 2 Modeling Language Change with Constructional Networks Elizabeth Closs Traugott 3 Cyclic Phenomena in the Evolution of Pragmatic Markers. Examples from Romance Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen 4 The Historical Path of eso sí as a Contrastive Connective Ana Llopis Cardona 5 Grammaticalization, Distance, Immediacy and Discourse Traditions: The Case of Portuguese caso David Gerards and Johannes Kabatek 6 Paragdimaticalization through Formal Ressemblance: A History of the Reinforcer bien in Spanish Discourse Markers Álvaro Octavio de Toledo 7 New Challenges to the Theory of Grammaticalization. Evidence from the Rise of no obstante, no contrastante and no embargante Mar Garachana 8 The Evolution of Temporal Adverbs into Consecutive Connectives and the Role of Discourse Traditions: The Case of Italian allora and Spanish entonces Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga 9 Different Sensitivity to Variation and Change: Italian Pragmatic Marker dai vs. Discourse Marker allora Piera Molinelli 10 Insubordination, Abtoenung, and the Next Move in Interaction. Main-Clause-Initial puisque in French Ulrich Detges and Paul Gévaudan 11 Paths of Grammaticalization: Beyond the LP/RP Debate Salvador Pons Bordería 12 On Argumentative Relations in Spanish: Experimental Evidence on the Grammaticalization of Cause-Consequence Discourse Markers Inés Recio (), Laura Nadal and Óscar Loureda Index
