Grammaticalization: The Phoenix of Modern Linguistics?

We describe the emergence and evolution of grammaticalization—as term and concept —in the 19th and 20th centuries. We analyze Meillet’s use of the concept of grammaticalization against the backdrop of other important figures (e.g. Bopp, Vossler, Spitzer), in order to better understand Meillet’s spec...

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Published in:	Histoire Épistémologie Langage
Main Authors:	Benjamin Fagard, Jean-Michel Fortis
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage 2025-08-01
Subjects:	history of linguistics grammaticalization corpus linguistics language change
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/hel/7056