Reanalyse und Grammatikalisierung in den romanischen Sprachen

In the context of the increasingly lively debate on paths and processes operative in language change, the concepts grammaticalization and reanalysis/reinterpretation are especially crucial. There does however appear to be a certain degree of confusion about what these terms actually refer to. Are grammaticalization and reanalysis mutually exclusive, or are they complementary? To what extent do grammaticalization processes imply reanalysis, and what is that distinguishes these two processes? On the basis of concrete examples from the Romance languages the articles assembled in this volume (a fruit of the Section titled »Between Lexicon and Grammar. Reanalysis in the Romance Languages« at the Romance Languages Conference in Jena in 1997) approach these questions from a variety of angles. New insights into the cognitive and linguistic mechanisms underlying these two processes in language change come notably from those studies analyzing reanalysis and grammaticalization with the aid of semantico-pragmatic criteria.