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Grammaticalization of discourse markers: views from Jordanian Arabic [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 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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Grammaticalization

open access: yes, 2017
Linguistic change not only affects the lexicon and the phonology of words, it also operates on the grammar of a language. In this context, grammaticalization is concerned with the development of lexical items into markers of grammatical categories or ...
Walter Bisang
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Thoughts on grammaticalization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
"Thoughts on grammaticalization" was first published in a working-paper version in 1982 and became very influential immediately, even though it was properly published only in 1995.
Lehmann, Christian; University of Erfurt
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Grammaticalization as Space Creation: A New View of Grammaticalization [PDF]

open access: yes法政大学文学部紀要, 2017
In this paper, I discuss the emergence of articles, the and a/an, in the history of English. The indefinite article a/an appeared later than the definite article the in English.
OSAWA, Fuyo, OSAWA Fuyo
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Quantitative Approaches to Grammaticalization

open access: yesHistoire Épistémologie Langage
Grammaticalization may entail a variety of non-essential mechanisms, such as schematization or lexicalization. What these processes have in common is a semantic expansion of the grammaticalizing form, translated empirically into a frequency increase ...
Quentin Feltgen
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The Unidirectionality of Grammaticalization in Modern Linguistics

open access: yesRUDN 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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Some Observations on What Grammaticalization Is and Is Not

open access: yesCadernos 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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IMPLICATIONS OF A CONSTRUCTION FOR THE THEORY OF GRAMMATICALIZATION: ESTONIAN ADESSIVE MANNER AND CAUSE ADVERBIALS; PP. 374–400 [PDF]

open access: yesTrames, 2009
The paper proceeds from a comparison of a grammaticalization and a con­structional 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]

open access: yesLinguistica 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]

open access: yesمطالعات 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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