TY - GEN AU - Lehmann,Christian TI - Thoughts on grammaticalization SN - OAPEN_603353 PY - 2015/// PB - Language Science Press KW - linguistics KW - bicssc KW - reinforcement KW - syntagmatic relation KW - paradigmatic relation KW - word order KW - analogy KW - grammaticalization KW - degrammaticalization KW - reanalysis KW - renewal KW - Latin KW - Preposition and postposition KW - Verb N1 - Open Access N2 - After a short review of the history of research, the work introduces and delimits the concepts related to grammaticalization. It then provides extensive exemplification of grammaticalization phenomena in diverse languages, ordered by grammatical domains such as the verbal, pronominal and nominal sphere and clause level relations. The final chapter presents a theory of grammaticalization which is based on the autonomy of the linguistic sign with respect to the paradigmatic and syntagmatic axes. This is the basis of the structural parameters that constitute grammaticalization. They are operationalized to the point of rendering degrees of grammaticalization measurable UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/0babd64b-cfb2-4aeb-95a9-593397c87d6e/603353.pdf UR - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32841 ER -