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Grammaticalization

open access: yes, 2017
Abstract 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, more generally, with the development of markers used for procedural cueing ...
Heiko Narrog, Bernd Heine
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Grammaticalization

2021
A recurrent observation in works dealing with the evolution of Romance languages from Latin is that inflection is richer in the latter than in the former, since many Latin inflectional categories were lost in the daughter languages, conveyed instead by periphrastic mechanisms. This typological change has often been described as an “analytical tendency”
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Grammaticalization

2010
Abstract The fundamental insight is grammation, a change from lexical to grammatical content via reanalysis of a lexical item to be merged in a functional projection. Feature change and preference principles provide the necessary motivation. Reduction processes are separate from grammation.
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Grammaticalization, constructions and the grammaticalization of constructions

2012
Research within constructional approaches to language has begun to develop a framework for modelling diachronic variation, but the precise relationship between diachronic construction grammar and grammaticalization has yet to be fully worked out (Noël 2007).
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Grammaticalization

Abstract Grammaticalization is a well-established field of investigation in Portuguese linguistics, and a vast number of grammaticalization pathways have been documented. In this chapter we frame grammaticalization within a broader functional view of grammatical change, focusing on how roots with more lexical meaning acquire new ...
Martin Konvička, Ferdinand von Mengden
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