History and grammaticalisation of "doch"/"toch"
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2009 The paper investigates the origins of the German/Dutch particle toch/doch) in the hope of shedding light on a puzzle with respect to doch/toch and to shed some light on two theoretical issues. The puzzle is the nearly opposite meaning of the stressed and unstressed versions of the particle which cannot be accounted for in standard theories of the ...
Zeevat, Henk, Karagjosova, Elena
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Causal Reasoning and Event Cognition as Evolutionary Determinants of Language Structure. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2021 Gärdenfors P.
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Variation and grammaticalisation in Bantu complex verbal constructions: The dynamics of information growth in Swahili, Rangi and siSwati [PDF]
, 2016 Many Bantu languages have a system of complex verbal constructions, where several verbal forms combine to describe a single event. Typically, these consist of an auxiliary and a main verb, and often tense-aspect marking and subject agreement is found on ...
Gibson, Hannah, Marten, Lutz
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Grammaticalisation, métonymie et pertinence [PDF]
Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française 2008, 2008 Les changements semantiques sous-jacents aux phenomenes de grammaticalisation ont ete analyses dans le passe comme des transferts metaphoriques, des glissements metonymiques ou des « conventionnalisations d’implicatures ». Dans cette breve contribution, nous nous demanderons, a l’instar de Nicolle (1998), quel pourrait etre l’apport de la theorie de la
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Typologie vs linguistique générale : un essai // Typology vs general linguistics : an essay [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2015 In this paper, I take up the case of quotative evidentials and their (non-?)existence in Romance languages, in an attempt to illustrate the fact that the dialogue between typological linguistics and general linguistics is essential.
Benjamin Fagard
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De la grammaticalisation à la lexicalisation: le cas de 'ci-ta' en coréen [PDF]
, 2006 International audienceThe aim of this paper is to defend the hypothesis that grammaticalization and lexicalization are two parallel language change processes, and not opposites or mirror images.
Choi-Jonin, Injoo
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Postulêre werkwoorde in Griekwa-Afrikaans – ʼn ondersoek vanuit ʼn grammatikaliseringsperspektief
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2016 Die grammatikale funksie wat liggaamshoudingwerkwoorde, oftewel postulêre werkwoorde (spesifiek die werkwoorde sit, staan, lê en loop) in geskrewe Standaardafrikaans verrig, is taamlik omvattend beskryf in bestaande Afrikaanse taalkundenavorsing.
Breed, Catharina Adriana
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The evolution of a coordinator from a vocative source: the case of the disjunctive ja: in Jordanian Arabic. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Jaradat AA, Jaradat AA, Al-Taher MA.
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Epistemic authority and sociolinguistic stance in an Australian Aboriginal language
Open Linguistics, 2019 Murrinhpatha, an Aboriginal language of northern Australia, has an initial k-alternation in verbs that has hitherto been resistant to grammatical analysis.
Mansfield John
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Towards reconstructing the numeral classifier system of Proto-Tivoid
Afrika und ÜberseeThe Tivoid subgroup of Bantoid presents an evolving numeral classifier system with restricted lexical coverage, as attested for a number of various subgroups of the Benue Congo languages of Nigeria and Cameroon (Kießling 2018).
Michael Terhemen Angitso +1 more
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