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In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper, we draw on a socially stratified corpus of dialect data collected in north-east England to test recent proposals that grammaticalization processes are implicated in the synchronic variability of general extenders (GEs), i.e., phrase- or ...
Levey, S, Pichler, H
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Grammaticalization Cases Through the Four Linguistic shifts
Arbitrer, 2021 The present study aims at describing the grammaticalization phenomenon of some HA elements that, to the best of the author,s knowledge, have not been dealt with.
Mohammad Ali Al Zahrani
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Schematic Meanings of Prepositions “baraye” and “ta” and Their Secondary Grammaticalization [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 The present paper is a semantic survey of prepositions "/barāyē/ and /tā/. The aim of study is to identify schematic meaning of the mentioned prepositions with a diachronic view in order to investigate semasiological changes of meaning as a result of ...
Sepideh Abdolkarimi, Sara Babaei Fallah
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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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Affixoidhungrig? Skitbra! Comparing Affixoids in German and Swedish [PDF]
, 2006 In this article we offer a comparative survey of word-forming elements in German and Swedish known as “affixoids”. A highly controversial topic in German linguistics, the notion of “affixoid” does remain useful given the position of the elements in ...
Ascoop, Kristin, Leuschner, Torsten
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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2016 The present paper aims to explore, and address some issues concerning the Romance diachronic morphosyntax in the light of theoretical and methodological considerations on the grammaticalization and pragmaticalization phenomena, and the question of ...
Alice Preda Bodoc +1 more
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Non-situational functions of demonstrative noun phrases in Lingala (Bantu) [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines the non-situational (i.e., non-exophoric) pragmatic functions of the three adnominal demonstratives, oyo, wand, and yango in the Bantu language Lingala.
Meeuwis, Michael, Stroeken, Koenraad
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Lice in the fur of our language? German irrelevance particles between Dutch and English [PDF]
, 2020 The present paper compares the distribution of English ‑ever, German immer and/or auch, and Dutch (dan) ook in universal concessive-conditional and nonspecific free relative subordinate clauses (e.g. G.
Bossuyt, Tom
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Linguistik Online, 2010 In this paper, we consider the way modal particles are translated as an indication of their degree of grammaticalization. More in particular, the exemplar case studied here is the French translation of the German particles denn and eigentlich.
Steven Schoonjans, Kurt Feyaerts
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The rise of ergativity in Hindi: assessing the role of grammaticalization [PDF]
, 2009 This article investigates the origins and development of the ergative patterning in Hindi. Following traditional Indo-Aryan scholarship, two evolutions are discerned: (i) the reanalysis of a passive as an ergative construction, and (ii) the development ...
De Cuypere, Ludovic, Verbeke, Saartje
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