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Pathways of Grammaticalisation in Italo-Romance [PDF]
Probus, 2020 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 Groothuis
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2009 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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Langue(s) & Parole, 2023 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’
Kalbotyra, 2022 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
Voix Plurielles, 2012 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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Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2023 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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Linguistica, 2011 Dans le cadre des études de la morphologie traditionnelle, le gérondif et le participe sont considérés être les formes verbales, formées à partir des désinences particulières, fait prouvé en diachronie. Ce procédé reste-t-il productif en synchronie ?
Mojca Schlamberger Brezar
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‘E sí la hoïren tots’: sí and emphatic positive polarity in Old Catalan
Isogloss, 2020 This paper explores the semantic value and syntactic distribution of the lexical item sí in Old Catalan. After examining data extracted from El Llibre dels Fets, a 13th century chronicle, it is concluded that sí was an Emphatic Positive Polarity Particle
Afra Pujol Campeny
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Ambiguität in kritischen Kontexten: Der lexical split des deutschen Modalverbs dürfte / Ambiguity in Critical Contexts: The Lexical Split of the German Modal dürfte [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in WrocławThe present-day German modal verb dürfen (‘to be allowed to do sth’) is currently undergoing a lexical split in its grammaticalisation. In the subjunctive II, dürfte, it is developing into an epistemic marker of phoric non-factuality used to express a ...
Katja Politt
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Cognitive mechanisms and emergent grammatical features in Internet memes
LingBaW, 2018 Internet memes of the type composed of an image macro and text, have a strong form-meaning correlation that is shared among users of social media. Their frequency of usage and the immediacy of their broad reach around the world make them an interesting ...
Elke Diedrichsen
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