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Énonciation, grammaticalisation et lexicalisation [PDF]
Cahiers de praxématique, 2006 L’objectif general de cette etude est d’evaluer le role de l’enonciation dans la formation et l’exploitation de deux sortes d’instructions semantiques complementaires a l’interieur du sens. Dans la premiere partie, nous observons que ce qui est modal au sens elargi, procedural ou grammatical, centre sur la notion de formule, resulte d’un processus de ...
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Lexicalización en los indefinidos latinos. Tālis como base léxica
Pallas, 2017 Dans cette contribution nous analysons l’expression phraséologique, lexicale et grammaticale de quelques indéfinis. Cependant, nous nous intéressons non pas à la grammaticalisation des unités phraséologiques ou lexicales dans la formation des expressions
Benjamín García-Hernández
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Participial Perception Verb Complements in Old English
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2014 In this paper, I shall examine the complements of perception verbs in Old English involving a noun phrase and a present participle. What kind of perception is described by these structures?
Lowrey Brian
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E-REA, 2018 This article takes a look at what is hypothesised to be a recent phenomenon restricted to some forms of contemporary British English, whereby the restrictive adverb ONLY seems to have become a discourse marker signalling counter-expectation or ...
Jim WALKER
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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Un cas de grammaticalisation ratée ? Étude diachronique de l’emploi du verbe stand en anglais
Anglophonia, 2014 This article discusses the different uses of the verb stand in earlier stages of the English language, based on data from the Oxford English Dictionary.
Maarten Lemmens
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The Role of Play in Language Structure, Acquisition and Evolution
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT Similarly to language, play is an essential component of human behaviour and culture. However, the links between play and language have been underexamined and often neglected beyond the aesthetic uses of language as found in literature. But playing pervades language.
Antonio Benítez‐Burraco +2 more
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Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2009 In this paper, I study the syntactic, morphological, semantic and phonological realizations of HAVE. After a brief reminder of the main principles at work in a grammaticalization process, and having examined the various functional realizations of HAVE, I
Lucile Bordet
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