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Tanja Mortelmans

Sarah Groodt

Der vorliegende Sammelband ist das erste Werk seiner Art, das speziell der Grammatikalisierung im Deutschen gewidmet ist. In 15 Artikeln befassen sich die Autoren mit der Entstehung und dem historischen Wandel von grammatischen Elementen und Konstruktionen im nominalen Bereich, im verbalen Bereich sowie im Bereich zwischen Grammatik und Diskurs. Die Beiträge gehen vom theoretischen und methodologischen Diskussionsstand der internationalen Grammatikalisierungsforschung aus und suchen Antworten auf Fragen bezüglich der Systematik und Interaktion von Sprachwandelprozessen, ihrer funktionalen Motivationen und ihrer kognitiven Einbettung. Das Ergebnis ist ein Kompendium, das nicht nur für Germanisten von Interesse ist, sondern durch seine theoretische und empirische Reichweite auch Wissenschaftler anspricht, die sich für Grammatikalisierungsphänomene im Allgemeinen interessieren. Der Band enthält u. a. Beiträge von Elisabeth Leiss, Damaris Nübling, John Ole Askedal, Gabriele Diewald, Mechthild Habermann, Peter Auer und Susanne Günthner.

Grammatikalisierung im Deutschen

Kristin Davidse

This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features, and outcomes of these changes. New theoretical reflections are offered on the pragmatic motivation of grammaticalization paths, process-oriented differences between grammaticalization, lexicalization and degrammaticalization, the question of gradualness and pace of grammaticalization, and deictics as a distinct source of grammaticalization. The articles describe various constructional and distributional changes affecting deictics, determiners, reflexives, clitics, nouns, affixes, adverbs and (auxiliary) verbs, mainly in the Germanic and Romance languages. The volume will be of great interest to historical linguists working on grammaticalization and related changes, and to all linguists working on the interface between morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse.

New Reflections

Grammaticalization and Language Change

Gunther Vogelaer

Dietha Koster

Designed as a contribution to contrastive linguistics, the present volume brings up-to-date the comparison of German with its closest neighbour, Dutch, and other Germanic relatives like English, Afrikaans, and the Scandinavian languages. It takes its inspiration from the idea of a "Germanic Sandwich", i.e. the hypothesis that sets of genetically related languages diverge in systematic ways in diverse domains of the linguistic system. Its contributions set out to test this approach against new phenomena or data from synchronic, diachronic and, for the first time in a Sandwich-related volume, psycholinguistic perspectives. With topics ranging from nickname formation to the IPP (aka 'Ersatzinfinitiv'), from the grammaticalisation of the definite article to /s/-retraction, and from the role of verb-second order in the acquisition of L2 English to the psycholinguistics of gender, the volume appeals to students and specialists in modern and historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, translation studies, language pedagogy and cognitive science, providing a wealth of fresh insights into the relationships of German with its closest relatives while highlighting the potential inherent in the integration of different methodological traditions.

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