Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific

Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 511
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Download or read book Grammaticalization Scenarios from Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific written by Walter Bisang and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume intends to fill the gap in the grammaticalization studies setting as its goal the systematic description of grammaticalization processes in genealogically and structurally diverse languages. To address the problem of the limitations of the secondary sources for grammaticalization studies, the editors rely on sketches of grammaticalization phenomena from experts in individual languages guided by a typological questionnaire.


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