The history of the concept of grammaticalisation
The present thesis discusses the history and meaning of the term and concept called grammaticalisation. Linguists usually ascribe the coinage of the term grammaticalisation to Antoine Meillet (1866-1936), who allegedly played a vital role in the history of grammaticalisation. It is also widely acknowledged that grammaticalisation was in some way ârevived' during the 1970s, and that Talmy GivĂłn had an important role in this, as demonstrated by the popularity of the saying 'Today's morphology is yesterday's syntaxâ (taken from one of his articles). I show that Meillet wrote little about grammaticalisation and that he hardly ever used this word, and possibly did not mean for it to be viewed as a term / label. Moreover, the paper in question (Meillet, 1912) is basically a general introduction to a concept which he sees as a continuation of a notion with a long history. In addition, I prove that there are no clear links between Meillet and GivĂłn's work in the early 1970s. Despite the general acceptance that Meillet coined grammaticalisation, my thesis proves that it could have been coined more than once, and that it does not always mean the same thing to all users. I show that sometimes the term is accompanied
LindstrĂ¶m, Tiedemann
The history of the concept of grammaticalisation. The present thesis discusses the history and meaning of the term and concept called grammaticalisation. Linguists usually ascribe the coinage of the term grammaticalisation to Antoine Meillet (1866-1936), who allegedly played a vital role in the history of grammaticalisation. It is also widely acknowledged that grammaticalisation was in some way ârevived' during the 1970s, and that Talmy GivĂłn had an important role in this, as demonstrated by the popularity of the saying 'Today's morphology is yesterday's syntaxâ (taken from one of his articles). I show that Meillet wrote little about grammaticalisation and that he hardly ever used this word, and possibly did not mean for it to be viewed as a term / label. Moreover, the paper in question (Meillet, 1912) is basically a general introduction to a concept which he sees as a continuation of a notion with a long history. In addition, I prove that there are no clear links between Meillet and GivĂłn's work in the early 1970s. Despite the general acceptance that Meillet coined grammaticalisation, my thesis proves that it could have been coined more than once, and that it does not always mean the same thing to all users. I show that sometimes the term is accompanied
history concept present discus history mean term concept call linguists usually ascribe coinage term allegedly play_vital role history also widely_acknowledge way revive talmy important_role demonstrate popularity say today morphology syntax take article show write little hardly ever use_word possibly mean viewed term label moreover paper question basically general_introduction concept see continuation notion long_history addition prove clear link work despite general acceptance coin prof could coin always mean thing user show sometimes term accompany