Grammaticalization and structural scope increase

Possessive-classifier-based benefactive marking in Oceanic languages

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10292015
AutoresJae Jung Song (autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen43
Número4
Fecha de publicación2005-01-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling.2005.43.4.795
OpenAlexW2047245217
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas9

This article discusses the development of possessive classifiers into benefactive markers in Oceanic languages. On the basis of Tabor and Traugott’s (1998) diachronic string comparison, this change episode will then be demonstrated to involve structural scope increase contrary to the widely held assumption that scope decrease is a manifestation of grammaticalization. The article also identifies as an empirically testable hypothesis the strong connection between scope increase, and the formal identity between source items and their grammaticalized descendants. Moreover, the recent controversy over the status of grammaticalization (theory) is critically appraised with the conclusion that grammaticalization has an independent status of its own and the general mechanisms of language change should be invoked to account for instances of grammaticalization

Classifier (UML) · Grammaticalization · Language change · Linguistics · Political science · Possession (linguistics) · Possessive · Scope (computer science) · Structuring · Theoretical linguistics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation