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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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Asynchronous grammaticalization: V1-conditionals in present-day English and German [PDF]
, 2015 The present paper contrasts verb-first (= V1-)conditionals in written usage in present-day English and German. Based on the hypothesis that V1-protases originated in independent interrogatives and then grammaticalized as conditional subordinate clauses ...
Leuschner, Torsten, Van den Nest, Daan
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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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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Parallel grammaticalizations in Tibeto-Burman : evidence of Sapir's 'Drift' [PDF]
, 2010 In chapters seven and eight of his book Language, Sapir talked about what he called ‘drift’, the changes that a language undergoes through time [...]. Dialects of a language are formed when that language is broken into different segments that no longer ...
LaPolla, Randy J.
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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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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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Arhinolemur scalabrinii† Ameghino, 1898 was originally described as a strepsirrhine primate (Mammalia) but has been recognized as an anostomid fish since 2012. It remains the only extinct anostomid species known from complete cranial material.
Karen M. Panzeri +8 more
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Grammaticalization and Diachronic Structural Pattern
Catalan Journal of LinguisticsThe paper posits the hypothesis that if a form or construction entering a process of grammaticalization has a diachronic structural pattern, the grammaticalization may become entrenched and strengthened; it can recategorize and move easily into other ...
Concepción Company Company
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