Beyond ``pathways'' and ``unidirectionality'': on the discontinuity of language transmission and the counterability of grammaticalization  

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Janda, Richard D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 23 no. 2-3 (2001), page 265-340.
Fulltext: 23_02-03_Janda.pdf (561.9KB)

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As a lexical construction enters and continues along a grammaticalization pathway, . . . it undergoes successive changes . . . broadly interpretable as representing a unidirectional movement away from its original speci®c and concrete reference and to increasingly abstract reference. Moreover, . . . material progressing along a pathway tends to undergo increasing phonological reduction and to become increasingly morphologically dependent on host material. . . . [T]he most advanced grammatical forms, in their travel along developmental pathways, may. . . undergo. . . continuous reduction from originally free, unbound items. . . to axes. . .. (Pagliuca, 1994, p. ix.) . . . [It is a] strange way of looking at things . . . to think that a language and . . . [its] forms . . . lead a life to themselves, apart from . . . individual speakers, and . . . [to] permit . . . [oneself] to be governed to such an extent by terminology that . . . [one] regard[s] metaphorical expressions as reality . . . and even incorporate[s] into . . . language [certain] concepts which are only . . . ways in which . . . grammarian[s] look . . . at things. If someone could once and for all manage to get rid of these generally harmful expressions. . .! . . . [Many] in themselves quite innocent grammatical terms have so far been almost exclusively a curse, hardly a blessing. (Ostho? and Brugmann 1878, p. xv/1967, pp. 205±206.)

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