Haspelmath at 15:03, 4 February 2008

2008-02-04T15:03:01Z

Haspelmath: New page: '''Antigrammaticalization''' is a morphosyntactic change that is the opposite of grammaticalization in that it "leads from the endpoint to the starting point of a potential grammaticalizat...

2008-02-04T15:02:44Z

New page: '''Antigrammaticalization''' is a morphosyntactic change that is the opposite of grammaticalization in that it "leads from the endpoint to the starting point of a potential grammaticalizat...

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'''Antigrammaticalization''' is a morphosyntactic change that is the opposite of grammaticalization in that it "leads from the endpoint to the starting point of a potential grammaticalization and also shows the same intermediate stages" (Haspelmath 2004:27-28).

===Example===
In Irish, the first person plural subject suffix ''-muid'' was antigrammaticalized to become the independent personal pronoun ''muid''.

===Comment===
Antigrammaticalization is a special case of [[degrammaticalization]]. Originally, ''degrammaticalization'' referred exclusively to antigrammaticalization, but especially in the 1990s the use of its term has been extended so much that a new term is useful.

===Origin===
The term was coined by Haspelmath (2004:27), first presented at the conference [[New Reflections of Grammaticalization 2]] in Amsterdam (February 2002).

===Reference===
*Haspelmath, Martin. On directionality in language change with particular reference to grammaticalization. In: Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds). ''Up and down the cline: The nature of grammaticalization.'' (Typological Studies in Language, 59.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 17-44.

===Other languages===
German [[Antigrammatikalisierung]]

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 ===Reference===
-*Haspelmath, Martin. On directionality in language change with particular reference to grammaticalization. In: Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds). ''Up and down the cline: The nature of grammaticalization.'' (Typological Studies in Language, 59.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 17-44.
+*Haspelmath, Martin. 2004. On directionality in language change with particular reference to grammaticalization. In: Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds). ''Up and down the cline: The nature of grammaticalization.'' (Typological Studies in Language, 59.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 17-44.
 ===Other languages===

Antigrammaticalization - Revision history

Haspelmath at 15:03, 4 February 2008

Haspelmath: New page: '''Antigrammaticalization''' is a morphosyntactic change that is the opposite of grammaticalization in that it "leads from the endpoint to the starting point of a potential grammaticalizat...