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Pathways of Grammaticalisation in Italo-Romance [PDF]
Abstract The aim of this contribution is to discuss three possible theoretical interpretations of grammaticalised structures in present-day Italo-Romance varieties. In particular, we discuss and analyse three diachronic case studies in relation to the generative view of grammaticalisation.
Kim A Groothuis
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Die Entstehung des periphrastischen Perfekts mit haben und sein im Deutschen – eine längst beantwortete Frage? [PDF]
The rise of the periphrastic perfect tenses - past participle + have or be is, a phenomenon for which the analysis is especially promising with regards to the research on grammaticalisation.
Öhl Peter
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This article provides a corpus-based diachronic constructional analysis of the three English cardinal posture verbs (hence CPVs) sit, stand and lie. Contrary to their equivalents in genetically related languages, the English CPVs have not grammaticalised into locative, progressive, or habitual markers or into copulas.
Mégane Lesuisse, Maarten Lemmens
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In this paper, I study the syntactic, morphological, semantic and phonological realizations of HAVE. After a brief reminder of the main principles at work in a grammaticalization process, and having examined the various functional realizations of HAVE, I
Lucile Bordet
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Grammaticalisation processes in Flemish Sign Language [PDF]
Following Hopper & Traugott (2003 [1993]: 232), grammaticalisation can be defined as “the change whereby lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions.” Grammaticalisation processes have not been studied very extensively in sign
Van Herreweghe, Mieke
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Dans cet article, est présentée une esquisse de typologie phonétique des langues à partir de la tension phonétique, définie et caractérisée par le Système verbo-tonal et qui constitue un des universaux du langage compte tenu de son caractère biologique.
Roser Gauchola
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Intensifiers and epistemic adverbials – On the history of German echt ‘really, lit. real/genuine’
Adverbials of truth or reality such as really (en.), wirklich (de.), verdaderamente (sp.) are cross-linguistically assumed to be a rich source for intensifiers (degree words) as in: (i) Peter is really nice.
Bjarne Ørsnes
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La grammaticalisation de Meillet, un siècle plus tard
Le terme grammaticalisation, inventé par le linguiste français Antoine Meillet, fait référence au processus par lequel un mot perd sa valeur sémantique et son autonomie syntaxique pour devenir un élément grammatical.
Paul Bessler
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Eleven out of fourteen Estonian nominal cases are generally regarded as semantic cases, rather than grammatical, but some are more grammaticalised (i.e. less semantic) than others.
Mari Aigro, Virve-Anneli Vihman
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Changement grammatical et discursif en français multiculturel de la région parisienne : éléments de comparaison [PDF]
Cet article cherche à comparer la variation et le changement dans deux domaines linguistiques, à savoir la grammaire et le discours. Il présente les résultats du projet « Multicultural London English – Multicultural Paris French » et s’interroge sur les ...
Secova, Maria
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