Syllabus
1. Brief history of grammaticalization; key concepts and principles of the grammaticalization theory
2. Paths of grammaticalization: Verbal phrase – verbal categories (tense & aspect)
3. Paths of grammaticalization: Verbal phrase – auxiliaries, modal verbs
4. Paths of grammaticalization: Determiners – definite articles
5. Paths of grammaticalization: Adpositional and nominal phrase – case & adpositions
6. Paths of grammaticalization: Sentence phrase – agreement, conjunctions, topic-focus constructions, word order changes
7. Paths of grammaticalization: Pragmatic particles
8. Issues in grammaticalizion research: Lexicalization & pragmaticalization; consultation & presentation of research projects
9. Issues in grammaticalizion research: Motivation for grammaticalization; consultation & presentation of research projects
10. Issues in grammaticalizion research: Contact-induced grammaticalization; consultation & presentation of research projects
Annotation
The course presents students with key concepts of the theory of grammaticalization and methodologies which are to be used in a grammaticalization research. Special emphasis is put to the application of acquired skills into practice.
Apart from discussion of particular studies in the field, one of the students’ task is to propose a doable research project on some of the suggested grammaticalization topics.