Grammaticalization - ALINP120B

• Title: Grammaticalization
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Linguistics (21-ULING)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (22)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Magdalena Králová Zíková, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Magdalena Králová Zíková, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 09.3 Linguistics

Annotation

This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of grammaticalization theory and provides a foundational understanding of key grammaticalization pathways emerging from both verbal and nominal domains. Special attention is given to identifying early-stage grammaticalization processes in Czech and offering methodological guidance for their analysis. Throughout the course, we will work with spoken Czech data, so a basic passive understanding of Czech is required.

Last update: Králová Zíková Magdalena, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2025)

Course completion requirements

• Regular attendance (maximum of two missed lessons)

• Final test

• Regular reading of short texts

• Development of a research project (teamwork)

Last update: Králová Zíková Magdalena, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2025)

Literature

Bybee, Joan L., Revere D. Perkins, and William Pagliuca. The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Bybee, Joan L. Language, Usage and Cognition. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Fried, Mirjam. “Construction Grammar as a Tool for Diachronic Analysis.” Constructions and Frames 1, no. 2 (2009): 261–290.

Heine, Bernd, and Tania Kuteva. World Lexicon of Grammaticalization. New York, N.Y., USA: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Heine, Bernd, and Tania Kuteva. The Changing Languages of Europe. Oxford Linguistics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Carlier, Anne, and Walter De Mulder. “The Emergence of the Definite Article: Ille in Competition with Ipse in Late Latin.” In Subjectification, Intersubjectification and Grammaticalization. Topics in English Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, by Kristin Davidse, Lieven Vancelanotte, and Hubert Cuyckens, 241–275. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2010.

Hilpert, Martin. Germanic Future Constructions: A Usage-Based Approach to Language Change. Constructional Approaches to Language, v. 7. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co, 2008.

Hopper, Paul J., and Elizabeth Closs Traugott. Grammaticalization. 2nd ed. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Krug, Manfred. Emerging English Modals: A Corpus-Based Study of Grammaticalization. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2010.

Lehmann, Christian. Thoughts on Grammaticalization. 3rd edition. Classics in Linguistics 1. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2015.

Narrog, Heiko, and Bernd Heine, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization. Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Stathi, Katerina, Elke Gehweiler, and Ekkehard König, eds. Grammaticalization: Current Views and Issues. Studies in Language Companion Series (SLCS), v. 119. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co, 2010.

Stolz, Thomas, Cornelia Stroh, and Aina Urdze. On Comitatives and Related Categories: A Typological Study with Special Focus on the Languages of Europe. Vol. 33. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2006.

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, and Richard B. Dasher. Regularity in Semantic Change. Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 97. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Trijp, Remi van. The Evolution of Case Grammar. Computational Models of Language Evolution 4. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2016.

Last update: Eclerová Zdeňka, Mgr. (10.04.2019)

Syllabus

1. Key concepts and principles

2. Verbal phrase: modal verbs

3. Czech spoken construction "Acc + nemuset"

4. Verbal phrase: tense and aspect

5. Czech "immediate future" construction "jít + infinitive"

6. Nominal phrase: case and gender

7. Czech article-like ten

Last update: Králová Zíková Magdalena, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2025)

Registration requirements

Since the course will focus on certain ongoing grammaticalization processes in Czech, students are required to have a basic knowledge of the language, particularly the ability to work with spoken Czech data.

Last update: Králová Zíková Magdalena, Mgr., Ph.D. (04.02.2025)