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Polish in the light of grammaticalization theory [PDF]
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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Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar [PDF]
Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have been made in grammaticalization research to more precisely articulate the largely ...
Joel Olofsson +8 more
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Could be, might be, maybe Mechanisms of grammaticalization in synchronic use and perception [PDF]
In grammaticalization, functional reanalysis and formal reduction are often regarded as elements of a unified diachronic process, though rooted in general communicative and cognitive preferences.
Lorenz, David,, Lund University.
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The grammaticalization of do-support in the northern Italian Camuno dialect [PDF]
The Camuno dialect is almost unique among the Romance languages in employing a support verb, fa ‘do’, in an interrogative construction strongly reminiscent of English do-support.
Swinburne, Nicola
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Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in Nànáfwê [PDF]
Bohoussou A, Skopeteas S. Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in Nànáfwê. In: Verhoeven E, Skopeteas S, Shin Y-M, Nishina Y, Helmbrecht J, eds. Studies on Grammaticalization. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]. Vol 205.
Verhoeven, Elisabeth +5 more
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Grammaticalization Cases Through the Four Linguistic shifts
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]
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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Grammaticalization in the languages of Europe [PDF]
The Eurocentric bias in most linguistic research makes it difficult to determine what is peculiar to grammaticalization in Europe. Typological profiles can be established, if not for Europe as a whole, at least for parts of it, in particular for what ...
Östen Dahl, Dahl, Östen,
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Tracking Jespersen’s cycle in Veronese and Bresciano: Diatopic variation in sentential negation [PDF]
This article provides an insight in the expression of sentential negation in two Italo-Romance varieties, i.e., Bresciano and Veronese. The fieldwork data gathered in Lumezzane (BS), Brescia, San Giovanni Lupatoto (VR) and Nogara (VR) shows an intriguing
Tagliani M. +3 more
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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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