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L’évolution de comme et comment : le témoignage des grammairiens et des dictionnaires de l’époque

Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023
A partir d’informations que nous fournissent les grammaires et dictionnaires récents et contemporains, notre contribution a un double objectif : a. Nous analysons plus particulièrement l’histoire de comme afin de mieux comprendre les problèmes actuels ...
Valerie Wielemans
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Grammaticalisation and preverbs [PDF]

Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 2004
The aim of this paper is to investigate the historical process whereby preverbs came into being in Hungarian: to shed light on the reason why certain adverbial elements, used autonomously at first, were subsequently degraded into items of a bound grammatical category.
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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Features of BE-perfect grammaticalization in the person-based auxiliation system of Barese

Kalbotyra
This paper seeks to identify patterns of the BE auxiliary usage in the Barese perfect which features a person-based auxiliary usage pattern but does not strictly adhere to it.
Danguolė Kotryna Kapkan
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The Emergence of Tab in Najdi Arabic

Languages, 2023
This study empirically investigates functional and social variation in the use of TAYYIB (‘okay, well, right’) in light of grammaticalisation. Thirty naturally occurring conversations of 60 Najdi Arabic speakers were recorded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The
Amereh Ibrahim Almossa
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The [ADJ + as] intensifier construction in Māori English/Aotearoa English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract We introduce the Waikato Māori English Conversation (MEC) corpus, which consists of 43 dyadic conversations between 49 young adults who self‐recorded informal conversations with close friends, in their own homes, with no topic of conversation specified (83 hours of dialogue; nearly 800,000 words).
Andreea S. Calude, Hēmi Whaanga
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Grammaticalisation cut short

, 2018
This article provides a corpus-based diachronic constructional analysis of the three English cardinal posture verbs (hence CPVs) sit, stand and lie. Contrary to their equivalents in genetically related languages, the English CPVs have not grammaticalised into locative, progressive, or habitual markers or into copulas.
Lesuisse, Mégane, Lemmens, Maarten
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The ‘Bilingualism Factor’ in Language Change: The Consequences of Language Contact Within and Across Bilingual Minds1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 460-478, November 2025.
Abstract Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can ...
Luna Filipović, John A. Hawkins
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The Quotative System in Spanish and English Youth Talk. A Contrastive Corpus-based Study

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2014
The speech of teenagers is rich in narratives, with the direct reproduction of speech, thoughts, and non-lexical material often introduced through the use of quotatives. This paper aims to compare such quotative markers in English and Spanish.. Findings
Ignacio Miguel Palacios Martínez
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