Meaning Change In Grammaticalization: An Enquiry Into Semantic Reanalysis

Explores the mechanisms underlying semantic change. Meaning changes work, and this is evident in processes of grammaticalization in which lexical items lose autonomous meaning. Based on formal semantic theory and with case studies, this book is useful for students of historical and comparative linguistics and formal semantics.

• | By (Author): Regine (University Of Gottingen) Eckardt
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 27, 2006
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 298 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0199262608
• | ISBN-13: 9780199262601