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Clitic Placement and the Grammaticalization of the Future and the Conditional in Old Catalan
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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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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Towards a constructional approach to discourse-level phenomena : the case of the Spanish interpersonal epistemic stance construction [PDF]
This study contributes to a better understanding of how constructional models can be applied to discourse-level phenomena, and constitute a valuable complementation to previous grammaticalization accounts of pragmatic markers.
Enghels, Renata
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S-/Z- and the Grammaticalization of Aspect in Slavic
It is argued that the phonetic coalescence of *sъ- and *jьz into a single prefix resulted in the (partial) grammaticalization of innovative s-/z- as the primary préverbe vide of the aspectual systems in a group of western languages (Czech, Slovak ...
Stephen M. Dickey
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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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In search of grammaticalization in synchronic dialect data: General extenders in north-east England [PDF]
In this paper, we draw on a socially stratified corpus of dialect data collected in north-east England to test recent proposals that grammaticalization processes are implicated in the synchronic variability of general extenders (GEs), i.e., phrase- or ...
Levey, S, Pichler, H
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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]
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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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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The Grammaticalization of the Discourse Marker genre in Swiss French
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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Recent Changes in the Notion of Grammaticalization and the Rise of Alternative Concepts
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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