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BL
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1043602
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b797972
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| Main Entry
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Eckardt, Regine.
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| Title & Author
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Meaning change in grammaticalization : : an enquiry into semantic reanalysis /\ Regine Eckardt.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2006.
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| Series Statement
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Oxford linguistics
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| Page. NO
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viii, 288 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0199262608
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: 9780199262601
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-279) and index.
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| Contents
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Meaning change under reanalysis: previous views -- Truth conditional semantics -- What is going to happen -- From step to negation: the development of french complex negation patterns -- From intensifier to focus particle -- To be or not to be a determiner -- Semantic reanlaysis: the algebraic backbone of meaning change -- Definitions from logic and model theory.
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| Abstract
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"This book explores the semantic and pragmatic mechanisms underlying grammaticalization. Regine Eckardt argues that language change frequently involves a structural reorganization at the phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels. Speakers not only master the structural aspect of such reanalyses, they also - as the author argues - keep a detailed mental record of what has happened to meaning. The author develops semantic reanalysis as the semantic correlate and tracks its effects in meaning change. Several case studies offer new insights in the architecture of conceptual thinking that is part of the human language faculty."
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"Professor Eckardt develops her approach in terms of formal semantic theory. She shows how neatly tailored analyses in truth-conditional compositional semantics can elucidate the structural mechanisms of meaning change. Her exposition is advanced in the context of several in-depth case studies containing data new to historical linguistics. This book will be of central interest to scholars and advanced students of historical and comparative linguistics and of formal semantics in departments of linguistics and philosophy."--Jacket.
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| Subject
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Grammaticalization.
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Semantics, Historical.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Grammaticalization.
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Semantics, Historical.
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Bedeutungswandel.
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Bedeutungswandel.
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Grammatikalisation.
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Grammatikalisation.
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| Dewey Classification
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415
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| LC Classification
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P299.G73E27 2006
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| NLM classification
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ET 425rvk
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