Grammaticalization as Economy
| Arizona State University
This book provides much detail on the changes involving the grammaticalization of personal and relative pronouns, topicalized nominals, complementizers, adverbs, prepositions, modals, perception verbs, and aspectual markers. It accounts for these changes in terms of two structural economy principles. Head Preference expresses that single words, i.e. heads, are used to build structures rather than full phrases, and Late Merge states that waiting as late as possible to merge, i.e. be added to the structure, is preferred over movement. The book also discusses grammar-external processes (e.g. prescriptivist rules) that inhibit change, and innovations that replenish the grammaticalized element. Most of the changes involve the (extended) CP and IP: as elements grammaticalize clause boundaries disappear. Cross-linguistic differences exist as to whether the CP, IP, and VP are all present and split and this is formulated as the Layer Principle. Changes involving the CP are typically brought about by Head Preference, whereas those involving the IP and VP by Late Merge.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 71] 2004. xv, 320 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
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xi
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Notes for the Reader
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xiii–xiv
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List of Tables
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xv
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Part I
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1
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Introduction
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3–15
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Economy
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17–34
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Part II
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35
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The structure of CP and the layer parameter
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37–76
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Spec to Head: The rise of the (embedded) CP
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77–100
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Late merge: The rise of the split CP
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101–118
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More late merge: Heads to higher Heads and Specs to higher Specs
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119–131
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Part III
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133
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The IP, VP-shell, and their layers
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135–154
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Changes in modals and have : Competition for ASP-hood
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155–178
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Perception verbs and ASPect
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179–199
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Aspect: The Tense Aspect Parameter and inner to outer aspect
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201–230
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Late merge: Heads to higher Heads
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231–250
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Part IV
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251
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The layer parameter and pronominal argument languages
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253–262
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Conclusion
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263–276
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Notes
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277–288
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References
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289–308
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Index
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309–320
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The Rise of Agreement is a substantial contribution to recent literature (e.g. Roberts & Roussou, van Gelderen 2004) that attempts to bridge the divide between formal and functional accounts of grammaticalization phenomena. The empirical scope of the book is wide, covering Bavarian, Rhaeto-Romance, Uto-Aztecan, Mongolian, and other languages. Fuß proposes a novel theoretical model of the creation of new agreement morphology. The book will be of interest to both historical morpho-syntacticians, as well as syntacticians interested in the structure of agreement.”
Brady Clark, Northwestern University, in Studies in Language 32(1), 2008
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Grammaticalization as Economy makes a large number of testable proposals and can therefore be expected to seed many research projects, and to give further depth to formal syntacticians' engagement with grammaticalization and uniderectionality.”
Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Stanford University, in English Language & Linguistics Vol. 10(1), 2006
“The book makes a clear theoretical claim. As such, it is an important contribution to the study of grammaticalisation in particular and of diachronic syntax in general. It will also be of great interest to anyone concerned with language change and syntactic theory.”
Anna Roussou, University of Patras, in Journal of Linguistics 42, 2006
“This is a most admirable piece of scholarship [...]. Van Gelderen's book may usher in a new era of interest in grammaticalization from a formal perspective. Functional research on grammaticalization would definitely profit from this as well.”
Heiko Narrog, Tohoku University, on Linguist List 16-1218, 2005
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