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The grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of the Romanian indefinite pro-forms: a corpus-based approachThe grammaticalization and pragmaticalization of the Romanian indefinite pro-forms: a corpus-based approach

open access: yesCírculo 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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Clitic Placement and the Grammaticalization of the Future and the Conditional in Old Catalan

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
The romance future and conditional tenses are the result of the grammaticalization of Latin periphrasis, mainly cantāre habeō. In some medieval Romance languages, including Catalan, two types of forms existed: synthetic forms (faré ‘I will do’) and ...
Aina Torres-Latorre, Andreu Sentí
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Die Übersetzung von Modalpartikeln als Indiz ihres Grammatikalisierungsgrades: die französischen Pendants von denn und eigentlich

open access: yesLinguistik 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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Beyond Mere Text Frequency: Assessing Subtle Grammaticalization by Different Quantitative Measures. A Case Study on the Dutch Soort Construction

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
Grammaticalization has proven to be an insightful approach to semantic-morphosyntactic change within and across languages. Many studies, however, rely on assessing the large, obvious differences before and after the change.
Robbert De Troij, Freek Van de Velde
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The Study of the Emergence of Modal Functions of the Verb “Residan” (to arrive) in Persian from the Perspective of Grammaticalization [PDF]

open access: yes̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2020
Modal functions of the verb “residan” (to arrive) and the emergence of such modal characteristics are discussed from the perspective of grammaticalization in the present study.
Mahmood Jafari Dehaghi   +2 more
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Prototype effects in discourse and the synonymy issue: Two Lakota postpositions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Despite of being fully synonymous at the semantic level, the postpositions el "locative/directional" and ekta "locative/directional" in Lakota (Siouan, Central North America) display different semantic cores in discourse: the semantic prototype for el is
Pustet, Regina
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The Grammaticalization of the Discourse Marker genre in Swiss French

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
By conducting an apparent-time analysis of the OFROM corpus collected in Francophone Switzerland, this study examined the use of genre as discourse marker in the speech of 306 French L1 speakers.
Delin Deng
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Descrizione e spiegazione di ‘visibili’ grammaticalizzazioni attestate nella diacronia del cinese: tra linguistica storica e linguistica cognitiva

open access: yesAtti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019
Description and explanation of ‘visible’ grammaticalization processes in the Chinese language diachrony: between historical and cognitive linguistics. The paper, according to historical- and cognitive linguistic points of view, deals with some processes ...
Emanuele Banfi
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Grammaticalization in the languages of Europe

open access: yes, 2018
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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Recent Changes in the Notion of Grammaticalization and the Rise of Alternative Concepts

open access: yesHistoire Épistémologie Langage
This paper deals with the “modern” notion of grammaticalization as it has been developed in the 1980s. It is since the programmatic study by Christian Lehmann that the research on grammaticalization has received increasing interest and resulted in a ...
Elena Smirnova
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