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Cognitive mechanisms and emergent grammatical features in Internet memes

open access: yesLingBaW, 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

open access: yesSHS 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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Les marqueurs de changement de topique du discours en roumain : évolution sémantique et rôle pragmatique

open access: yesDiscours, 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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Emergence phenomena in German W-immer/auch-subordinators [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The present study is concerned with the distributional patterns of the irrelevance particles immer ‘ever’ and auch ‘also’ in German universal concessive conditionals and free relatives (e.g. was immer er auch sagt ‘whatever he says’). Whereas irrelevance
Bossuyt, Tom   +2 more
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PRONOUNS IN MEANING CONSTRUCTION OF LANGUAGE

open access: yesTrakya 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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Can 'nothing' be grammaticalised? Comments on Permian vowel ~ zero alternations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The aim of this paper is to present the most salient characteristics of Permian vowel ~ zero alternations and to analyse them in terms  of grammaticalisation. The term `grammaticalisation' will be used here in a non-traditional sense. When we investigate
Geisler, Michael
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Connecting Grammaticalisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change.
Jens Nørgård-Sørensen   +2 more
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To be or not to be an auxiliary verb. The case of Spanish

open access: yesBorealis: 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

open access: yes, 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

open access: yesStellenbosch 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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