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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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The grammaticalization of do-support in the northern Italian Camuno dialect
The Camuno dialect is almost unique among the Romance languages in employing a support verb, fa ‘do’, in an interrogative construction strongly reminiscent of English do-support.
Swinburne, Nicola
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Unity and diversity in grammaticalization scenarios [PDF]
The volume contains a selection of papers originally presented at the symposium on “Areal patterns of grammaticalization and cross-linguistic variation in grammaticalization scenarios” held on 12-14 March 2015 at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz ...
Montaut, Annie +12 more
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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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Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in Nànáfwê
Bohoussou A, Skopeteas S. Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in Nànáfwê. In: Verhoeven E, Skopeteas S, Shin Y-M, Nishina Y, Helmbrecht J, eds. Studies on Grammaticalization. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]. Vol 205.
Verhoeven, Elisabeth +5 more
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Prototype effects in discourse and the synonymy issue: Two Lakota postpositions [PDF]
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 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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Grammaticalization in the languages of Europe
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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