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Causal Reasoning and Event Cognition as Evolutionary Determinants of Language Structure. [PDF]
Gärdenfors P.
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Postulêre werkwoorde in Griekwa-Afrikaans – ʼn ondersoek vanuit ʼn grammatikaliseringsperspektief
Die grammatikale funksie wat liggaamshoudingwerkwoorde, oftewel postulêre werkwoorde (spesifiek die werkwoorde sit, staan, lê en loop) in geskrewe Standaardafrikaans verrig, is taamlik omvattend beskryf in bestaande Afrikaanse taalkundenavorsing.
Breed, Catharina Adriana
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History and grammaticalisation of "doch"/"toch"
The paper investigates the origins of the German/Dutch particle toch/doch) in the hope of shedding light on a puzzle with respect to doch/toch and to shed some light on two theoretical issues. The puzzle is the nearly opposite meaning of the stressed and unstressed versions of the particle which cannot be accounted for in standard theories of the ...
Zeevat, Henk, Karagjosova, Elena
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Reconsidering Kirby’s compositionality model toward modelling grammaticalisation [PDF]
Grammaticalisation is a potent candidate to structuralise and complexify human languages in the evolution of language. It is a phenomenon of language change, in which content words such as nouns and verbs change into functional words such as auxiliaries ...
Masaya Nakatsuka +3 more
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Epistemic authority and sociolinguistic stance in an Australian Aboriginal language
Murrinhpatha, an Aboriginal language of northern Australia, has an initial k-alternation in verbs that has hitherto been resistant to grammatical analysis.
Mansfield John
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The evolution of a coordinator from a vocative source: the case of the disjunctive ja: in Jordanian Arabic. [PDF]
Jaradat AA, Jaradat AA, Al-Taher MA.
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The verb help is highly polysemous and some of its meanings even seem contradictory. In order to try and understand how this polysemy came into being, I propose a look back at examples from the early modern period onwards, so as to trace the link that ...
Mathilde Pinson
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Cette communication propose d’étudier, d’une part, la nature du lien entre les deux cadres épistémologiques de la grammaticalisation (Marchello-Nizia, 2006) et de la phraséologie (Granger & Paquot, 2008 ; Bolly, 2011), en prenant appui sur les Grammaires
Les "Verbes Parenthétiques": Hypotaxe, Parataxe ou Parenthèse? / “Parenthetical Verbs”: Hypotaxis, Parataxis or Parenthesis? +1 more
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Grammaticalization of discourse markers: views from Jordanian Arabic. [PDF]
Jaradat A, Jaradat A.
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Shared vs. Primary Epistemic Authority in Jaminjung/Ngaliwurru
This paper contributes to the typology of complex perspective markers by presenting an in-depth analysis of a system of epistemic authority marking which functionally overlaps with, but has no exact parallels in, similar systems attested cross ...
Schultze-Berndt Eva
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