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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Grammaticalisation"”.
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The history of the concept of grammaticalisation
… and meaning of the term and concept called grammaticalisation. Linguists usually ascribe the coinage of the term grammaticalisation to Antoine Meillet (1866-1936), who allegedly played a vital role in the history of grammaticalisation. It is also widely acknowledged that grammaticalisation …
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Posuny ve vyjadřování kategorie určenosti v současné spisovné a nespisovné češtině
… avoided. Methodologically this paper starts from grammaticalisation theory, according to which frequently used expressions are in certain contexts syntactically and morphological1y reanalyzed, and after having grammaticalised, they continue to develop new grammatical functions (cf. Traugott 1995). …
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A study of the historical and linguistic factors that shaped Modern Spanish
… contact, historical linguistics, including grammaticalisation and sound change regularity. In doing so, this study considers how the past has influenced the present shape of Spanish and considers which sociolinguistic and contact factors were involved. The main findings are that, however …
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Written Kaaps: The morphological (in-)dependence of het
… 2003), this contributes to evidence that het’s grammaticalisation is not uniform. The study further seeks to contribute to wider discussions on the behaviour of the auxiliary het within Kaaps and Afrikaans more generally, to advance understanding of Kaaps morphosyntax. Beyond advancing our …
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Aspects of morphology and syntax of negation in Greek sign language
… different settings and language change through grammaticalisation. Finally, data analysis of negation has also revealed some important areas for further research like basic word order, syntax of negative concord and various expressions of negation, the prosodic analysis of non-manual features of …
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Reflexes of Finiteness in Romance
… they all result from a process of downwards (re)grammaticalisation, whereby grammatical elements originating in the C-domain come to occupy the lowest position of the CP, and, in the case of mu and cu, also come to head smaller complements and thus to occupy lower functional heads. This process …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… based on the notion of 'inverse alignment' and grammaticalisation of pictotypical agency relationships. Chapter 11 describes valency, surveying transitivity types and describing the valency changing and rearranging derivations available in the language, including antipassive, causative and …
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The Tukang Besi language of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
… constructions that show different degrees of grammaticalisation, behaving unlike 'true' verbs and more like prepositions in some respects. Contiguous serialisation is also found in the language, and is in many respects indistinguishable from the extensive valency-increasing morphology in terms …
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A grammar of Chukchi
… based on the notion of 'inverse alignment' and grammaticalisation of pictotypical agency relationships. Chapter 11 describes valency, surveying transitivity types and describing the valency changing and rearranging derivations available in the language, including antipassive, causative and …
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The Tukang Besi language of southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
… constructions that show different degrees of grammaticalisation, behaving unlike 'true' verbs and more like prepositions in some respects. Contiguous serialisation is also found in the language, and is in many respects indistinguishable from the extensive valency-increasing morphology in terms …
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Les verbes de mouvement et l’expression du lieu en kirundi (bantou, JD62) : une étude linguistique basée sur un corpus
… qui font qu’ils se prêtent bien au processus de grammaticalisation (Heine et al. 1991: 38; Hopper & Traugott 2003: 100). L’actuelle thèse a comme but d’établir si c’est aussi le cas en kirundi. La thèse consiste de six chapitres. Le chapitre introductif décrit le kirundi comme langue de …