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To be or not to be an auxiliary verb. The case of Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019
This paper studies two Spanish constructions with the verb poner (‘to put’) and an infinitive. The first one, , has  traditionally been considered an inchoative periphrasis; however, we will show that its grammaticalisation is only complete with ...
Margot Vivanco
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Contact‐Induced Changes in Morphosyntax: An Introduction

, 2023
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 331-335, November 2023.
Michele Bianconi, Robin Meyer
wiley   +1 more source

The subjective use of postural verbs in Afrikaans (II): a corpus analysis of CPV en in Zefrikaans

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2017
A general linguistic use of progressive aspect is to express some kind of subjective meaning. In other words, this aspectual construction is applied to postulate the speaker’s attitude towards or emotional involvement with a particular situation ...
Breed, Adri
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Meillet’s Grammaticalisation as a Term and Concept: its Historical Foundations and Modern Rediscovery

Histoire Épistémologie Langage
It is generally accepted that Meillet (1912) coined the term grammaticalisation. However, the changes to which this term refers had been the subject of scholarly discussions long before Meillet’s involvement.
Carita Klippi, Therese Lindström Tiedemann   +1 more
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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.
Andriani, Luigi, Groothuis, Kim, Silvestri, Giuseppina   +2 more
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Semantic roles of case relations vs. substantival word-formational categories [PDF]

Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2018
The author presents her version of the semantic paradigm of case in Slavic and states that it is almost identical with the inventory of substantival word-formational categories.
Topolińska Zuzanna V.
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Grammaticalisation et acquisition du prédicat complexe faire + Vinf

Lidil, 2008
This paper comprises two parts. In the first, we examine the process of grammaticalisation of faire + Vinf complex predicate. We distinguish three stages: 1) the generalized use in Latin of biclausal constructions V1command, persuasion + complementizer +
Yanka Bezinska
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From vectors to waves and streams: An alternative approach to semantic maps

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2016
This article designs a method of improving traditional, qualitative semantic maps based on grammaticalisation paths, by including both quantitative data (frequency) and information concerning a gram’s environment (the relation to the other maps).
Alexander Andrason
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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“¿Cabe decir algo más?” An Inquiry into the Historical Development of a Modal and Discursive Verbal Periphrasis in Spanish

Catalan Journal of Linguistics
The main objective of this article is to reassess the pivotal role of semantic change within the framework of grammaticalisation and its intricate relationship with both textual and sentence syntax.
Mar Garachana
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