A note on the history of the term “pronomenalisation”

• Main Author: LaPolla, Randy J.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics; Sino-Tibetan Linguistics; Tibeto-Burman Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145086
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This short note discusses the origin and development of the use of the term “pronomenalisation” (pronominalization) in Sino-Tibetan linguistics, pointing out that the concept was originally a typological one, and that the phenomenon was seen as the result of grammaticalization, i.e. the free pronoun...