Readings for LING 319/519 (SARS 319/519)

  1. Readings on Grammaticalization, Polysemy, Metaphor etc.

  2. Results of an LLBA search on the topic of Grammaticalization and Metaphor (14 entries).

  3. Link to a paper by Lera Boroditzky on Does the language you speak shape the way you think? Cross-linguistic differences in tense, aspect, and the representation of actions.

  4. Link to a paper by Alice C. Harris Remarks on Grammaticalization.

  5. Link to a paper by Scott DeLancey on Grammaticalization and Linguistic Theory which argues that our "understanding of the phenomena of grammaticalization should inform linguistic theory more than is generally the case."

  6. Link to a paper by Bart Guerts, entitled "Explaining Grammaticalization (the Standard Way.)" This focuses on "the asymmetry between grammaticalization and degrammaticalization," i.e., why there's more of the former than the latter.

  7. Link to a paper by Ingo Plag ON THE ROLE OF GRAMMATICALIZATION IN CREOLIZATION.

  8. Link to a paper by Anthony Aristar and Helen Dry on the role of Deixis in Grammaticalization.

  9. Readings on Dravidian Languages and Linguistics.

  10. Van Pelt Rosengarten RR pdf documents: