TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giomi,Riccardo
TI  - A Functional Discourse Grammar Theory of Grammaticalization: Volume 1: Functional Change 
T2  - Brill's Studies in Historical Linguistics
SN  - 9789004520448
AV  - BC51 
U1  - 160 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Languages and Linguistics
KW  - Historical and Comparative Linguistics & Linguistic Typology
KW  - Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis
N2  - Meaning change in grammaticalization has been variously described in terms of decreasing semantic weight and increasing generality, abstraction, (inter)subjectivity or discourse orientation. The author shows that all these trends are subsumed by the notion of scope increase along a precise hierarchy of semantic and pragmatic layers of grammatical organization such as endorsed by Functional Discourse Grammar. The scope-increase hypothesis is immune from the exceptions and veritable counterexamples to all the aforementioned generalizations and has the decisive advantage of being more objectively measurable, given its direct bearing on actual linguistic structure. The extremely rare exceptions to this generalization are also addressed and found to always result from a type of change independent from grammaticalization – the merger of two separate speech acts
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004520578
ER  -