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The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms [PDF]

, 2007
This article1 and the three others in this thematic collection are about heads and specifiers, the relationship between them, and how this relationship can change over time.
Adger, Adger, Anderson, Antoine, Auger, Auger, Auger, Baltin, Barbosa, Benincà, Cann, Cardinaletti, Cardinaletti, Chomksy, Chomsky, Cinque, Cinque, Cinque, Cormack, Coveney, Cyrille-Thomas, De Cat, DeGraff, Duffield, Emonds, Goosse, Haegeman, Haegeman, Haegeman, Hansen, Hulk, Jackendoff, Jacobs, Jespersen, Jones, Koopman, Koopman, Martin, Moritz, Nadasdi, Polletto, Pollock, Queffélec, Rizzi, Rizzi, Rizzi, Roberge, Roberts, Rowlett, Rowlett, Rowlett, Schapansky, Taraldsen, Willis, Zanuttini, Zeijlstra, Zwicky   +56 more
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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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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 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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Grammaticalisation avant la lettre

Histoire Épistémologie Langage
This paper argues that the history of the study of grammaticalization as a linguistic change should begin long before the appearance of a term to describe it.
Gerda Haßler
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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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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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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
wiley   +1 more source

“¿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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