a book review of grammaticalization

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1、ABookReviewofGrammaticalization　　Abstract：Grammaticalization，abrilliantlinguisticwork，waswrittenbyHopperP.J.andElizabethClossTraugott.Itisanintroductorymonographonthestudyofgrammaticalization.InChinese，Grammaticalizationreferstosemanticbleaching.Totally，ninechaptershavebeenincludedint

2、hisbook.Theintentionofthisbookistoofferareviewofrelatedresearchesongrammaticalization.　　Keywords：grammaticaliation；semanticbleaching；review　　ⅠConceptionofGrammaticalizationandItsTwoStudiedPerspectives　　Theterm?Grammaticalization?hastwomeanings，onetodowitharesearchframeworkwithinwhicht

3、oaccountforlanguagephenomena，theotherwiththephenomenathemselves.Inthisrespecttheterm?Grammaticalization?resemblesnotonlyothertermsinlinguisticssuchas?grammar?，?syntax?，?phonology?buttheterminologyofallhigher-levelconceptsinscholarlydisciplines.Asatermreferringtoaresearchframework，?Gra

4、mmaticalization?referstothatpartofthestudyoflanguagechangethatisconcernedwithsuchquestionsashowlexicalitemsandconstructionscomeincertainlinguistic9contextstoservegrammaticalfunctionsorhowgrammaticalitemsdevelopnewgrammaticalfunctions.　　Grammaticalizationhasbeenstudiedfromtwoperspectiv

5、es.Thechiefperspectiveisdiachronic，investigatingthesourceofgrammaticalformsandthetypicalstepsofchangetheyundergo.Fromthisperspective，grammaticalizationisusuallythoughtofasthatsubsetoflinguisticchangeswherebyalexicalitemorconstructionincertainusestakesongrammaticalcharacteristics，orthr

6、oughwhichagrammaticalitembecomesmoregrammatical.Theotherperspectiveismoresynchronic，seeinggrammaticalizationasprimarilyasyntactic，discoursepragmaticphenomenon，tobestudiedfromthepointofviewoffluidpatternsoflanguageuse.Thisbookcombinedthesetwopointsofview，butwithgreatemphasisonthediachr

7、onicdimension.　　Thereareninechaptersinthisbook.Iwillsummarizethemonebyoneinthefollowingparagraphs.　　ⅡMaincontentsofNineChapters　　2.1ChapterOne　　Inthischaptertheauthorshavecomprehensivelyintroducedbasictermssuchas?grammaticalizedform?，?clitics?，?clines?，?affixation?，?periphrasis?.Asfar

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