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Meaning Change in GrammaticalizationAn Enquiry into Semantic Reanalysis$
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Meaning Change in Grammaticalization: An Enquiry into Semantic Reanalysis

Regine Eckardt

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780199262601

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199262601.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

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(p.1) 1 Introduction
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Meaning Change in Grammaticalization
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Regine Eckardt (Contributor Webpage)

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199262601.003.0001

This chapter formulates the main hypothesis of the book: meaning change in grammaticalization needs to be investigated in terms of an explicit theory of the syntax-semantics interface. Specifically, the semantic representation needs to allow for content words as well as functional words and modes of semantic composition. It is argued that truth conditional semantics is presently the most promising theory for this task.

Keywords:   meaning change, reanalysis, syntax-semantics interface, truth conditional semantics

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