Cline (linguistics)
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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.
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[edit] 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]
[edit] 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]
[edit] 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
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Fischer, Olga; Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (2004). 59 Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization. John Benjamins, 406 pages. ISBN 9789027229687.
- ^ Halliday, Michael (2003). On Language and Linguistics. Continuum, 448 pages. ISBN 0826458696.
- ^ Dr Maria Herke, A methodology for theoretically empowered corpus analysis
