World Lexicon of Grammaticalization

Heine, B., & Kuteva, T. (2002). World Lexicon of Grammaticalization. Cambridge University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2002

DOI

10.1017/cbo9780511613463

ISBN

9780521005975

DOI registrant

Cambridge University Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613463

Cited from

biology_ecology, linguistics_semiotics

Cited by

5 citations across 5 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Convergent Evolution
  • In linguistics, languages with no contact independently develop similar features under similar pressures — tonal systems, grammaticalization pathways, sound shifts — convergent solutions to the shared problem of efficient, learnable communication.

    This sourceDocuments recurrent grammaticalization source-target pathways shared independently across genetically unrelated languages — parallel development under shared communicative pressure.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    The abstract documents several hundred grammaticalization processes with examples from a variety of languages, supporting recurrent pathways but not contact-independence, tone, sound shift, or an efficiency cause.

    “It covers several hundred grammaticalization processes, in each case offering definitions of lexical concepts, suitable examples from a variety of languages, and references to the relevant research literature.”

    Read by an automated reader; not a human review. How support was checked

• Emergent Formalization (Language)
  • The tension remains live in the field.

    This sourceA-Z typological lexicon documenting the cross-linguistic source-to-target grammaticalization pathways — supports the 'cross-linguistically supported pathways' claim.

Domain-specific

• Semantic Narrowing and Widening
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Semantic Shift
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Unidirectionality Hypothesis
  • The World Lexicon of Grammaticalization organizes hundreds of source-to-target pathways across a broad language sample.

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