Grammaticalization in Emirati Arabic
, 2017 This paper is concerned with the process of language change whereby lexical items and constructions, in specific contexts, come to serve new grammatical functions. Emirati Arabic provides us with a wide range of grammaticalization phenomena.
Najib Ismail Jarad
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From adjective to prefix : lexicalization and grammaticalization of French ancien/nouveau + N
, 2008 "In our paper, we will claim that, once lexicalized, some compounds undergo a further process by which they end up as derivations. This claim implies that there is not only a continuum between syntax and compounding, but also between compounding and ...
Van Goethem, Kristel +1 more
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African American English intensifier dennamug: Using twitter to investigate syntactic change in low-frequency forms. [PDF]
Front Artif Intell, 2022 Jones T.
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Shared Grammaticalization With Special Focus on Transeurasian Languages
Double-negative periphrastic litotes have been for nearly three centuries the usual way to express necessitive predicates in Japanese and Korean. These constructions do not, however, go back to the earliest stages of these languages and should not be ...
Robbeets, Martine., Cuyckens, Hubert.
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Grammaticalization accounts of word order correlations
, 2019 This paper examines the role that grammaticalization plays in explaining word order correlations. It presents some data that only grammaticalization accounts for, but also argues that there are correlations that grammaticalization does not account for ...
Matthew S. Dryer
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The test of time: experimentally recreating the reanalysis of FINISH as a recent past marker
Language and CognitionIn grammaticalization studies, reanalysis is understood as the assignment of new meaning to formally unchanged elements, supported by bridging contexts compatible with the old and the reanalyzed meaning. The source determination hypothesis (SDH) predicts
Julia Heine +2 more
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Metaphor and metonymy in grammaticalization processes: the case of "aí" marker of specificity
Gragoatá, 2009 From the theoretical framework provided by functional linguistics, in this article I present some proposals regarding metaphorical and metonymic extensions of meanings in grammaticalization processes.
Maria Alice Tavares
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Grammaticalization as emergence of functional domains: three cases in Chadic
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2010 The purpose of this article is to describe the grammaticalization of selected functions in Chadic languages[1], functions that have seldom been observed in other languages and that have been largely ignored by literature making theoretical claims but ...
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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Metaphors: the evolutionary journey from bidirectionality to unidirectionality. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021 Gil D, Shen Y.
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Out-of-focus encoding in Gur and Kwa
, 2008 This paper investigates the structural properties of morphosyntactically marked focus constructions, focussing on the often neglected non-focal sentence part in African tone languages.
Fiedler, Ines, Schwarz, Anne
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