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On the polysemy of help

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2015
The verb help is highly polysemous and some of its meanings even seem contradictory. In order to try and understand how this polysemy came into being, I propose a look back at examples from the early modern period onwards, so as to trace the link that ...
Mathilde Pinson
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Shared vs. Primary Epistemic Authority in Jaminjung/Ngaliwurru

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2017
This paper contributes to the typology of complex perspective markers by presenting an in-depth analysis of a system of epistemic authority marking which functionally overlaps with, but has no exact parallels in, similar systems attested cross ...
Schultze-Berndt Eva
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Intersubjectivity and engagement in Ku Waru

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2019
Following Evans et al. (2018a, 2018b), I use “engagement” to refer to grammatical encoding of the relative accessibility of an entity or state of affairs to the speaker and addressee. I refer to what is thereby encoded as the “engagement function”.
Rumsey Alan
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Grammaticalisation du verbe dire et subordination en Juba Arabic

open access: yes, 2003
Cet article étudie la grammaticalisation du verbe 'dire' en Juba Arabic en comparant un corpus de locuteurs d'origine rurale et d'origine urbaine. Il montre les domaines d'emploi du verbe dire comme particule pour introduire des subordonnées complétives ...
Miller, Catherine
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Polygrammaticalisation, grammaire fractale et propriétés d'échelle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
La grammaticalisation est généralement étudiée comme un processus diachronique. On s'intéresse, dans cet article, aux morphèmes qui fonctionnent en synchronie dans différentes catégories syntaxiques et que l'on désigne comme des « marqueurs ...
Robert, Stéphane
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En attendant : un cas de pragmaticalisation. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article examines the pragmaticization process of the phrase en attendant in French. It first seeks to classify its uses in modern French according to syntactic, semantic and pragmatic criteria. It goes on to present the findings of a corpus analysis
Vigier, Denis
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Posture Verbs and Aspect: A View from Vernacular Arabic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper discusses a construction found in contemporary Arabic ver- naculars (but not in Modern Standard Arabic (henceforth MSA)) which con- stitutes an instance of a common grammaticalisation path in which a posture verb with a core lexical meaning of
Camilleri, Maris, Sadler, Louisa
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