Grammaticalization and loanwords: the processes that characterize them and what differentiates the two linguistic phenomena [PDF]
openLa tesi si propone di esaminare in modo approfondito due importanti fenomeni linguistici: la grammaticalizzazione e i prestiti linguistici. Nel primo capitolo, verrà delineato il concetto di grammaticalizzazione, esplorando i suoi processi chiave e ...
LANDO, ELISA
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Sul presente neoindoario a doppio verbo finito
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019 The present paper deals with the problem of the origin of a type of “double-finite” periphrasis having the structure, e. g., IS WALKS = ‘walks’ – i.e., formed by a finite form of the ‘be’ auxiliary plus a finite form of the main verb – which is used to ...
Paolo Milizia
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Grammaticalization in Nigerian Pidgin
Íkala, Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2012 Nigerian Pidgin (hereafter NP) has assumed elaborated roles and functions, gaining new grounds in different sociolinguistic domains as a result of its sustained social expansion process. One of the consequences of this increased dynamism of NP is the development of lexical items into grammatical markers which is an expected natural process.
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Grammaticalization in sign languages
, 2012 AbstractThis article considers the factors and processes associated with grammaticalisation in sign languages. It provides commentaries on the methodological challenges diachronic sign language research is faced with and describes selected grammaticalisation phenomena that we take to be modality-independent.
Pfau, R., Steinbach, M.
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The test of time: experimentally recreating the reanalysis of FINISH as a recent past marker
Language and CognitionIn grammaticalization studies, reanalysis is understood as the assignment of new meaning to formally unchanged elements, supported by bridging contexts compatible with the old and the reanalyzed meaning. The source determination hypothesis (SDH) predicts
Julia Heine +2 more
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Grammaticalization in isolating languages and the notion of complexity
, 2018 This 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
Pui Yiu Szeto +5 more
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Metaphor and metonymy in grammaticalization processes: the case of "aí" marker of specificity
Gragoatá, 2009 From the theoretical framework provided by functional linguistics, in this article I present some proposals regarding metaphorical and metonymic extensions of meanings in grammaticalization processes.
Maria Alice Tavares
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The Grammaticalization of ‘One’ in Slavic at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Catalan Journal of LinguisticsThis paper investigates the grammaticalization of the numeral ‘one’ in Slavic languages at the syntax-semantics interface. While extensively documented in Romance and Germanic, Slavic has received limited attention despite exhibiting varying ...
Daria Alexandrova, Luca Molinari
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The evolution of a coordinator from a vocative source: the case of the disjunctive ja: in Jordanian Arabic. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 Jaradat AA, Jaradat AA, Al-Taher MA.
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Grammaticalization as emergence of functional domains: three cases in Chadic
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2010 The purpose of this article is to describe the grammaticalization of selected functions in Chadic languages[1], functions that have seldom been observed in other languages and that have been largely ignored by literature making theoretical claims but ...
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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