The studies collected in this volume deal with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of complex syntactic structures in various languages dutch french italian portuguese romanian serbian and spanish they are set against the theoretical framework of grammaticalization the main methodological tools are cross linguistic contrastive analysis and diachronic perspective the two main issues that emerge from these studies are the . The studies collected in this volume deal with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of complex syntactic structures in various languages dutch french italian portuguese romanian serbian and spanish they are set against the theoretical framework of grammaticalization the main methodological tools are cross linguistic contrastive analysis and diachronic perspective the two main issues that emerge from these studies are the . Grammaticalization and pragmatics facts approaches theoretical issues edited by corinne rossari claudia ricci and adriana spiridon edition 1st ed publication bingley uk emerald group publishing 2009 series studies in pragmatics 5 studies in pragmatics 1750 368x 5 format description book 1 online resource 200 p subjects grammar comparative and general . Grammaticalization and pragmatics facts approaches theoretical issues rossari the studies collected in this volume deal with pragmatic factors involved in the evolution of grammatical or lexical forms or in the emergence of complex syntactic structures in various languages dutch french italian portuguese romanian serbian and spanish. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more