Cline (linguistics): Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
m →External links: not a stub |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 53: | Line 53: | ||
[[category:linguistics]] |
[[category:linguistics]] |
||
[[br:Dereziadenn (yezhoniezh)]] |
|||
Revision as of 09:54, 28 March 2009
In linguistics, a cline is a scale of continuous gradation. While cline is most frequently invoked as a general concept, it has also developed specialized uses in various linguistic sub-disciplines.
Cline of grammaticalisation
Within the study of grammaticalisation, the process of linguistic change in which a content word changes to a function word or a grammatical affix is depicted as a cline of grammaticalisation. [1]
Cline of instantiation
In his early work, the linguist Michael Halliday theorized about the cline of instantiation and noted its centrality to corpus linguistics. [2] [3]
General usage
Less formally, cline has been applied to describe a wide variety of linguistic gradients:
- cline of activity and transitivity
- cline of attribution
- cline of intelligibility
- cline of narrative interference
- cline of metaphor
- cline from metonymy
- semantic cline
See also
References
- ^ Fischer, Olga (2004). 59 Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization. John Benjamins. pp. 406 pages. ISBN 9789027229687.
{{cite book}}: Check|url=value (help); Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Halliday, Michael (2003). On Language and Linguistics. Continuum. pp. 448 pages. ISBN 0826458696.
- ^ Dr Maria Herke, A methodology for theoretically empowered corpus analysis