The Hypothesis of Unidirectionality

Hopper, P. J., & Traugott, E. C. (2003). The Hypothesis of Unidirectionality. Grammaticalization.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2003

DOI

10.1017/cbo9781139165525

ISBN

9780521804219

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core_title/gb/201683

Cited from

biology_ecology, linguistics_semiotics

Cited by

5 citations across 5 artifacts.

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Primes

• Emergent Formalization (Language)
  • The signature rests on six italicized role-phrases capturing the internal mechanics:

    This sourceThe unidirectional cline (lexical to grammatical) with semantic bleaching and decategorialization — supports the cline, unidirectionality, and going-to/gonna trajectory claims.

• Exaptation
  • Linguistics: Grammaticalization, in which a content word is co-opted into a grammatical function marker — English "going to" (motion verb) becoming a future-tense auxiliary — is a canonical linguistic exaptation, and Hopper and Traugott (2003) trace how lexical material is repeatedly recruited to grammatical service across unrelated languages.

    This sourceDocuments grammaticalization—the recurrent recruitment of lexical material to grammatical functions across unrelated languages—as a systematic, largely unidirectional shift coupling phonetic reduction with semantic bleaching.

• Synchronic vs. Diachronic Analysis
  • and Hopper-Traugott 2003 Grammaticalization

Domain-specific

• Semantic Shift
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Unidirectionality Hypothesis
  • Grammaticalization can stop, coexist with its source, split into several functions, or be replaced by another construction.

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