Grammaticalization of discourse markers: views from Jordanian Arabic [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 The inclusion of discourse markers (DMs), which are commonly depicted as syntactically non-integrated elements, within the domain of grammaticalization has been a controversial topic in the last two decades.
Abdulazeez Jaradat
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Some Observations on What Grammaticalization Is and Is Not
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 The notion of ‘grammaticalization’ — the embedding of once non- (or less-) grammatical phenomena into the grammar of a language — has enjoyed broad acceptance over the past 30 years as a new paradigm for describing and accounting for linguistic change.
Brian D. Joseph
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Affordances perspective and grammaticalization: Incorporation of language, environment and users in the model of semantic paths [PDF]
Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015 The present paper demonstrates that insights from the affordances perspective can contribute to developing a more comprehensive model of grammaticalization.
Alexander Andrason, Marianna Visser
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The Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization in Modern Linguistics
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2021 The present article contains the results of study on unidirectionality of grammaticalization which is understood as a shift from lexical to grammatical signs. The research aims to find out and describe present approaches to the unidirectionality idea and
Natalia V. Novospasskaya +1 more
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IMPLICATIONS OF A CONSTRUCTION FOR THE THEORY OF GRAMMATICALIZATION: ESTONIAN ADESSIVE MANNER AND CAUSE ADVERBIALS; PP. 374–400 [PDF]
Trames, 2009 The paper proceeds from a comparison of a grammaticalization and a conÂstructional account of a class of formulaic adverbial expressions from Estonian.
Heete Sahkai
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Some Grammatical Innovations in the Development of Estonian and Finnish: Forced Grammaticalization; pp. 241-256 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2011 The term forced grammaticalization (Zwangsgrammatikalisierung) was introduced by Nicole Nau, concerning the inclusion of articles into the grammars and dictionaries of old written Latvian and Estonian. The development of the standard Estonian offers many
Helle Metslang
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The Relation between Grammaticalization and Intersubjectification in Designating the Genesis of Modal Auxiliaries [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2020 This paper considers role of grammaticalization and intersubjectification in determining the origin of some modal auxiliaries in Iranian languages. These auxiliaries, based on Nuyts (2005 and further) express deontic necessity, epistemic possibility ...
Sepideh Koohkan +2 more
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Language and Linguistics Compass, 2011 The essence of grammaticalization is the evolution of a lexical category to a grammatical one or of a hybrid/functional category to another grammatical category. The first involves changes such as that of the verb have from “possess” to the marker of the perfect tense. The second involves changes such as that of to from a preposition (a hybrid category
D. Gary Miller, Elly van Gelderen
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The grammaticalization path DEICTIC SPATIAL ADVERB > ADPOSITION
Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México, 2023 In addition to the grammaticalization of nouns and verbs into adpositions, which has been widely discussed in the grammaticalization literature, this paper identifies and describes a much less well known grammaticalization path, by which deictic spatial
Denis Creissels
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Polish in the light of grammaticalization theory
Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2015 Polish in the light of grammaticalization theory The paper is concerned with grammaticalization, a type of language change whereby lexical items, in specifi contexts, come to serve grammatical functions, and grammatical items acquire new grammatical ...
Björn Hansen, Ana Drobnjaković
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