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Grammaticalisation, contact and corpora
2012The purpose of this paper is to outline the diachronic development of English adverbial connectives, mainly subordinators and prepositions, from Old to Present-day English. In Old English, the use of the subordination markers þe and þæt forming part of the adverbial subordinator and the gradual increase of þe is of interest.
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The pragmatics of grammaticalisation
Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2010This paper aims to identify the role of pragmatics in grammaticalisation and to highlight the particular steps in the process of the conventionalisation of conversational implicatures on the basis of a historical pragmatic study concerning the grammaticalisation of the Catalan anar ‘to go’ + infinitive construction.
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Replica grammaticalisation as recapitulation
Diachronica, 2014The study of replica grammaticalisation in contact (Heine & Kuteva 2003, 2005) has not been without its critics (e.g. Matthews & Yip 2009, Gast & van der Auwera 2012) because of assumptions of a historical linguistic awareness of model language grammaticalisation routes.
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Grammaticalisation et synchronie dynamique
La linguistique, 2007This study aims to define the concept of grammaticalisation and to determine its relationship with the notion of dynamic synchrony from a functional point of view.
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Does grammaticalisation need analogy?
2010The grammaticalisation of pronouns into clitics and agreement markers is less likely to proceed into the final stages in West Germanic than in Romance dialects. In addition, at least in Dutch, clitic doubling is liable to a development which appears typologically rare, viz. the development from clitic doubling to topic marking. This paper relates these
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