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Light Verbs and Grammaticalization. Evidence From the Catalan Light Verb “Agafar”
Catalan Journal of LinguisticsDetermining the linguistic nature of light verbs – whether they are lexical or grammatical units – is still an open question. Light verbs are often characterised as delexicalized.
Jordi Ginebra
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Movement triggers and the etiology of grammaticalization: the case of italian postposition fa [PDF]
Sintagma, 2012 This work deals with the Italian particle fa ``ago'', which together with expressions of time measure localizes an event in a certain point preceding the moment of elocution.
Ludovico Franco
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Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. The article discusses some ways of grammaticalization of the verb bolokh / bolokho / bolha / bolh ‘become, make; be’ in Mongolic languages (Mongolian, Buryat, Oirat and Kalmyk).
Liudmila A. Lidzhieva +2 more
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Numeral Incorporation as Grammaticalization? A Corpus Study on German Sign Language (DGS)
Languages, 2023 Numeral incorporation describes the merging of a numeral sign with a lexical sign to create a single sign with a compositional meaning, e.g., “three weeks.” As a phenomenon of simultaneous morphology, numeral incorporation is unique to sign languages ...
Felicitas Otte +3 more
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Remodeling grammar: Copying, conventionalization, grammaticalization
, 2008 The paper discusses processes involved in copying of grammatical elements. The Code Interaction framework is applied in the description and analysis of contact induced phenomena. This framework distingusihes between different types of copying.
Lars Johanson, Johanson, Lars,
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The Grammaticalization of Down [PDF]
STAP, 2009 The Grammaticalization of Down The present paper discusses the grammaticalization of down, focusing on when the process began and how it developed. The ultimate origin of down, both the adverb and the preposition, should be traced back to OE dūn ‘hill, mountain’, whose frequency of occurrence in Old English is comparable ...
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The Grammaticalization of the Numeral Classifier, done (ne) in Tāti [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2013 Grammaticalization is the change in language whereby lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions, and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions. Classifiers typically index
Mehrdad Naghzguy Kohan, Rahele Izadifar
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Grammar and grammaticalization in Zapotec [PDF]
: The present study contributes to the empirical basis of grammaticalization theory by presenting a grammaticalization profile of Zapotec, a language family of Mesoamerica.
Operstein, Natalie
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Grammaticalization and 'lateral' grammaticalization, formalismand functionalism
, 2017 Roberts and Roussou (2003) and van Gelderen (2011) analyse grammaticalization in Minimalism and argue that it involves ‘structural simplification’, which explains its cross-linguistic distribution. Simpson and Wu (2002) analyse ‘lateral’ grammaticalization, also within Minimalism.
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From LIKE/LOVE to habitual: the case of Mainland East and Southeast Asian languages
LinguisticsThis paper documents the common grammaticalization path of the LIKE/LOVE constructions into expressing habitual aspect in Mainland East and Southeast Asian languages. The stages and degrees of grammaticalization for the LIKE/LOVE constructions vary cross-
Fang Hongmei
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