Meaning Change in Grammaticalization

• Innovative approach to a central aspect of historical linguistics
• Links to topics of key current interest including grammaticalization and language evolution
• Equally accessible to historical linguists and semanticists
• Includes original case studies containing data new to historical linguistics

Readership: Scholars and advanced students of historical and comparative linguistics and of formal semantics in departments of linguistics and philosophy. Adoptable text for advanced courses in historical linguistics, diachronic linguistics, and formal semantics.

Regine Eckardt, University of Gottingen

"The book is well written and presents its argumentation with clarity, frequently supported by illustrative examples from different languages...in this book Eckard undoubtedly makes a significant contribution to our understanding of semantic reanalysis, one which serves as a useful complement to other approaches to meaning change in grammaticalization." - María José López-Couso Journal of Historical Pragmatics

1: Introduction
2: Meaning Change Under Reanalysis: Previous Views
3: Truth Conditional Semantics
4: What is Going to Happen
5: From Step to Negation: The Development of French Complex Negation Patterns
6: From Intensifier to Focus Particle
7: To Be or Not To Be a Determiner
8: Semantic Reanalysis: The Algebraic Backbone of Meaning Change
Appendix
Source Texts by Chapter
References
Index