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A multifaceted framework to establish the presence of meaning in non‐human communication
Biological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 6, Page 1887-1909, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT Does non‐human communication, like language, involve meaning? This question guides our focus through an interdisciplinary review of the theories and terminology used to study meaning across disciplines and species. Until now, it has been difficult to apply the concept of meaning to communication in non‐humans.
Jenny Amphaeris +4 more
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Morphosyntactic Contact in Translation: Greek ídios and Latin proprius in the Bible
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 404-426, November 2023., 2023 Abstract We investigate the possibility that contact with Greek through the translation of biblical texts may have played a role in the development of Latin proprius ‘personal’, ‘peculiar’ into a reflexive possessive adjective. A few centuries earlier, post‐Classical Greek witnesses a similar development with the adjective ídios ‘private’, ‘personal ...
Marina Benedetti, Chiara Gianollo
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Support‐Verb Constructions with Objects: Greek‐Coptic Interference in the Documentary Papyri?1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 382-403, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Support‐verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that fill the predicate slot, for example, to make a suggestion in I made the suggestion yesterday. The article examines direct‐object structures with support‐verb constructions in Greek documentary papyri from fourth‐ to mid‐seventh‐century Egypt.
Victoria Beatrix Fendel
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Negation in Contact: French and Occitan
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 444-459, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Development of negative markers along the lines of the well‐known Jespersen's Cycle occurred in a wide number of languages. This article investigates the possibility of contact playing a role in such developments in Lengadocian Occitan. The evolution of negation in Lengadocian Occitan followed two main lines.
Xavier C. A. Bach
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Subduction et grammaticalisation
Scolia, 2023 This paper deals with the verb structures with Fr. être + infinitive of purpose where être, equivalent to a verb of motion, seems to be very far from the traditional stative and copular uses. Consequently, we discuss the concepts of grammaticalization, subduction and (re)lexicalization.
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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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Plaidoyer pour la désolidarisation des notions de pragmaticalisation et de grammaticalisation
SHS Web of Conferences, 2012 Les liens éventuels de la pragmaticalisaion avec la grammaticalisation font débat : tandis que certains linguistes (parmi d’autres, Traugott & Dasher 2002, Dostie 2004 et Marchello-Nizia 2006) affirment que celle-là est incluse dans celle-ci, d’autres ...
Badiou-Monferran Claire, Buchi Eva
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Discours, 2018 This paper attempts to describe how adverbs and adverbial expressions of manner and space came to function as discourse markers of topic shifting in contemporary Romanian and to sketch a possible typology of these markers.
Alice Ionescu, Cecilia-Mihaela Popescu
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PRONOUNS IN MEANING CONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE
Trakya University Journal of Social Sciences, 2019 Grammaticalisation which is period of change manifests itself in semantic world of language as different rates and varied forms. While meaning construction of language is established, “substitution” needs to be identified again.
Emine Serap BOZKURT
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