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The Grammaticalization of Modal Verbs in Brazilian Portuguese: A Synchronic Approach
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2016 This paper analyzes the grammaticalization of modal verbs in Brazilian Portuguese from a synchronic perspective. It takes as its point of departure the hypothesis that grammaticalization is a process in which linguistic elements widen their scope.
Kees Hengeveld +1 more
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From grammaticalization to Diachronic Construction Grammar
Studies About Languages, 2022 The term grammaticalization originally denoted a particular outcome of language change (lexis > morphology), then got expanded to practically all studies involving language change, the processes that create such changes, and a theory modeling these ...
Spike Gildea, Jóhanna Barðdal
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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