{"product_id":"beyond-grammaticalization-and-discourse-markers-new-issues-in-the-study-of-language-change-9789004375406","title":"Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers: New Issues in the Study of Language Change","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210755760471,"sku":"9789004375406","price":144.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beyond-grammaticalization-and-discourse-markers-new-issues-in-the-study-of-language-change-9789004375406","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}