ID - 57040864 TI - World lexicon of grammaticalization AU - Kuteva, Tania AU - Heine, Bernd AU - Hong, Bo AU - Long, Haiping AU - Narrog, Heiko AU - Rhee, Seongha PY - 2019 SN - 9781107136243 9781316501764 9781316479704 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Grammar KW - English language KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Grammaticalization KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:57040864 AB - Extensively revised and updated, this second edition provides, in an A-Z format, an analysis of the most important generalizations that have been made on the unidirectional change of grammatical forms and constructions. Based on the analysis of more than 1,000 languages, it reconstructs over 500 processes of grammatical change in the languages of the world, including East Asian languages such as Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Readers are provided with the tools to discover how lexical and grammatical meanings can be related to one another in a principled way, how such issues as polysemy, heterosemy, and transcategoriality are dealt with, and why certain linguistic forms have simultaneous lexical and grammatical functions. Definitions of lexical concepts are provided with examples from a broad variety of languages, and references to key relevant research literature. Linguists and other scholars will gain a better understanding of languages on a worldwide scale. ER -