Rossari Corinne, Ricci Claudia, Spiridon Adriana (Editors). Grammaticalization And Pragmatics: Facts, Approaches, Theoretical Issues

Emerald, 2009. — 219 p. — (Studies in Pragmatics 5). — ISBN: 1848551622.The studies collected in this volume deal with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of complex syntactic structures in various languages (Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian and Spanish). They are set against the theoretical framework of grammaticalization. The main methodological tools are cross-linguistic contrastive analysis and diachronic perspective. The two main issues that emerge from these studies are the place of pragmatic factors in language change (input, output or setting/frame of the process) and the existence or otherwise of a prevailing mechanism for explaining change phenomena.Word Order from Latin to French: A Case of Grammaticalization (from Pragmatics to Syntactics) or of Typological Coherence? Auxiliaries and Grammaticalization: A Case Study of Germanic and Slavonic Languages
From the Confession of Ignorance to the Indefi nite: What Impact for a Theory of Grammaticalization? The Approximators French Comme, Italian Come, Portuguese Como and Spanish Como from a Grammaticalization Perspective The Spanish Discourse Marker Por Cierto: A Non-Standard Case of Grammaticalization
The Polysemy of Devoir: A Contrastive and Diachronic Analysis
On the Diachrony of Reinforced Negation in French and Italian
Nominal Utterances with Lexical Repetition: Effects of Grammaticalization?