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Dialects (speech communities), the apparent past, and grammaticalization
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018Over a long-term time frame in a language with several discrete dialects, how far does grammaticalization theory elucidate the history of individual morphemes?
J. Owens
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Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective
Linguistische Berichte Heft 271, 2018This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processesâ whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories—converge and differ across various types of language.
M. Gillmann
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Grammaticalization in isolating languages and the notion of complexity
Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, 2018This chapter consists of four related arguments. We first review the claims about the nature of grammaticalization in isolating languages, specifically those of East and Mainland Southeast Asia (EMSEA); based on this, we present a view that suggests that
U. Ansaldo, W. Bisang, Pui Yiu Szeto
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Grammatical metaphor and grammaticalization
Interpersonal Meaning, 2018The aim of this paper is to explore possible connections between ‘grammatical metaphor’ and ‘grammaticalization’, especially with a view to identifying synergies and fostering cross-fertilization of insights between SFL and ‘grammaticalization ...
M. Taverniers
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Refining secondary grammaticalization by looking at subprocesses of change
Language Sciences, 2015Tine Breban
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Typology and grammaticalization in the Papuan languages of Timor, Alor, and Pantar
Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, 2018This chapter investigates two grammaticalization patterns that are characteristic for the Timor-Alor-Pantar (TAP) family, a family of ~25 Papuan languages spoken in eastern Indonesia: first, the grammaticalization first of locational, deictic, and ...
M. Klamer
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Shaping typology through grammaticalization: North America
Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, 2018North America shows great genealogical diversity, yet many of the languages share a fundamental typological characteristic: elaborate morphology. Certain kinds of elaboration show areal distributions, suggesting contact effects. Many bound morphemes show
M. Mithun
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Grammaticalization from a Typological Perspective, 2018
Sub-Saharan Africa is an area for which hardly any earlier written documents are available. The student of African languages is therefore at a disadvantage when it comes to reconstructing processes of grammaticalization.
B. Heine
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Sub-Saharan Africa is an area for which hardly any earlier written documents are available. The student of African languages is therefore at a disadvantage when it comes to reconstructing processes of grammaticalization.
B. Heine
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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, more generally, with the development of markers used for procedural cueing of abstract relationships ...
Heiko Narrog, Bernd Heine
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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 of abstract relationships ...
Heiko Narrog, Bernd Heine
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