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SUMMARY:Linear and non-linear pragmaticalization (and why it's not just gr
 ammaticalization all the way down) - Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen (Universit
 y of Manchester)
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CONTACT:Onkar Singh
DESCRIPTION:In this paper I address the diachronic evolution of pragmatic 
 markers\, with a focus on what I call linear vs non-linear forms of pragma
 ticalization.\nThe rise of pragmatic markers has been an increasingly popu
 lar research topic for more than three decades. The most frequently attest
 ed pathway involves linguistic items or constructions that originally have
  truth-conditional meaning and belong to « core » grammar\, but which mo
 re or less gradually evolve non-truth-conditional\, more (inter)subjective
 \, uses that lie outside « core » grammar. This form of evolution is wid
 ely assumed to be regular\, unidirectional\, and thus fundamentally linear
  in nature. Saliently\, the study of such cases been used to argue for a r
 edefinition of the notion of grammaticalization.\nThe literature has\, how
 ever\, reported examples of markers that appear to have taken more complex
 \, non-linear\, paths at the semantic-pragmatic and/or the syntactic level
 . These types of cases have been/are the focus of two international resear
 ch networks of which I was/am the PI : the British Academy-funded « Cycli
 city in Semantic-Pragmatic Change : from Latin to Romance » (2017-18) and
  the AHRC-funded « The Role of Pragmatics in Cyclic Language Change » (2
 021-23). \nIn my talk\, I argue that because pragmatic markers may evolve 
 along a variety of non-linear – including but not limited to cyclical 
 – paths\, it is not helpful to subsume the rise of pragmatic markers und
 er the concept of grammaticalization. Instead\, in order to arrive at a de
 scriptively adequate account\, it is more useful to draw on a distinction 
 between grammaticalization\, pragmaticalization and lexicalization. \nI id
 entify four non-linear forms of pragmaticalization\, based on attested pat
 terns of evolution prominently involving interaction between\, on the one 
 hand\, two levels of meaning (the Content Level and the Context Level)\, a
 nd on the other hand\, two levels of grammar (Micro-Syntax and Macro-Synta
 x). \nMy examples will be adduced from several Romance languages.\n
LOCATION:Zoom
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