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Categoriality in Language Change

- The Case of the English Gerund

About Categoriality in Language Change

This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes noun/nominal and verb/clause. Lauren Fonteyn shows that the diachronic processes of nominalization and verbalization also involve functional changes by presenting a theoretical model of "functional-semantic categoriality" and applying it to the history of the English gerund.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780190917579
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 232
  • Published:
  • May 8, 2019
  • Dimensions:
  • 242x164x26 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 458 g.
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Expected delivery: December 8, 2024

Description of Categoriality in Language Change

This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes noun/nominal and verb/clause. Lauren Fonteyn shows that the diachronic processes of nominalization and verbalization also involve functional changes by presenting a theoretical model of "functional-semantic categoriality" and applying it to the history of the English gerund.

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