De opkomst van de Nederlandse grammatica. Over grammaticalisatie en andere verwante ontwikkelingen in de geschiedenis van het Nederlands
The rise of Dutch grammar. On grammaticalisation and other related developments in the history of Dutch

Author(s): Martin Konvička
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: Dutch language; grammaticalization; grammar; historical linguistics
Summary/Abstract: Grammaticalization has received a great deal of attention in recent decades. This paper reflects on the debates and uses their results to look at the processes in Dutch. The author understands grammaticalization as those processes that lead to the emergence of new or change in existing grammatical structures. The thesis contains three thematic units. The first illuminates the development of thinking about grammaticalization in a philosophical and linguistic context from the 19th century to the present day. It deals with the understanding of grammaticalization processes in the pre-structuralist conception of linguistics, as well as the relations of generative linguistics to the study of grammaticalization. The second part focuses on a critical discussion of the main themes in the current literature on grammaticalization. In the third part, theoretical accounts of grammaticalization are illustrated by means of Dutch.

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