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, 2018 Abstract 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 ...
Mégane Lesuisse, Maarten Lemmens
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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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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 119-150, March 2024.Abstract Degrammaticalisation is an oft‐dismissed category of language change. In this paper evidence is provided for its existence, its triggers, and its conditions. This case study details the development of an understudied Old Italo‐Romance indefinite, covelle, a polarity‐sensitive item roughly translating as ‘anything’ which originated from a Latin
Nicola D’Antuono
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Probing the interaction of language contact and internal innovation
Studies in African Linguistics, 2019 The Bantu language Rangi is spoken at the northern borderlands of Tanzania, where Bantu, Cushitic and Nilotic languages meet. In many regards, Rangi exhibits the morphosyntax typically associated with East African Bantu: SVO word order, an extensive ...
Hannah Gibson, Lutz Marten
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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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The be‐ versus get‐passive alternation in world Englishes
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 86-108, March 2024.Abstract Multifactorial studies of the be:get‐passive alternation are still rare. On the basis of the International Corpus of English, this is the first investigation to use mixed modelling for the passive alternation in world Englishes. Overall, our findings reveal that regional differences are far less important than language‐internal constraints ...
Marianne Hundt +2 more
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Typologie vs linguistique générale : un essai // Typology vs general linguistics : an essay [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2015 In this paper, I take up the case of quotative evidentials and their (non-?)existence in Romance languages, in an attempt to illustrate the fact that the dialogue between typological linguistics and general linguistics is essential.
Benjamin Fagard
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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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Speaking anxiety and task complexity effects on second language speech
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 292-315, February 2024.Abstract The association between speaking anxiety and L2 speech production, including L2 pronunciation, remains largely under‐researched, especially in relation to task complexity. The present study investigates the effect of task complexity on speaking anxiety and their impact on specific dimensions of L2 speech production: speaking fluency (speed ...
Joan C. Mora +2 more
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Les verbes français à préfixe co-
Neophilologica, 2004 The present paper deals with morphological, semantic and syntagmatic properties of French verbs with prefix co-. The methodological frame deemed most adequate for their description is “lexical decomposition”.
Mikołaj Nkollo
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