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Meaning change in grammaticalization an enquiry into semantic reanalysis

The author explores the mechanisms underlying semantic change. Meaning changes work, and this is evident in processes of grammaticalisation in which lexical items lose autonomous meaning. Based on formal semantic theory, this book is useful for students of historical and comparative linguistics and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eckardt, Regine
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2006, 2006
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative And General / Grammaticalization
Semantics, Historical
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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