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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"grammaticalization"”.
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Germanic future constructions: A usage-based approach to grammaticalization
This study offers a new approach to grammatical constructions that express futurity in Danish, Dutch, English, German, and Swedish. Future constructions develop out of lexical elements whose meanings persist to some degree in modern usage. Future constructions thus convey not only future time …
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Differential object marking in Basque: grammaticalization, attitudes and ideological representations
Differential Object Marking (DOM), a typologically common phenomenon, has enjoyed abundant scholarly interest insomuch as theoretical explanations of its key parameters (Aissen, 2003; Malchukov and Swart, 2008; Hoop and Swart, 2007), language- specific constraints (Leonetti, 2004; Seifart, 2012; …
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Conditional sentences in Early Modern English: a study in grammaticalization.
… grammars. Chapter 3 demonstrates that the grammaticalization of conditional markers is motivated by the need to express either a supposition or a kind of contingency relation between the protasis event and the apodosis event. It identifies the following as the sources of protasis markers in …
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The Development of Czech Aspectual Prefixes Through Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes
… prefixes progressed gradually and suggests that grammaticalization and lexicalization processes took place. The analysis in this study is based on the assumption that major stages of development are attested in the synchronic layering of aspectual prefixes. Synchronic layering is transparent in …
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Grammaticalization of Spanish 'De': Reanalysis of (De)queismo in Southern Cone Dialects
… semantic nuances of de ; hence, different grammaticalization stages.
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Tense, aspect and text : processes of grammaticalization in the history of the English auxiliary.
The primary object of inquiry is the semantics of the progressive and perfect constructions in Eng~ish, and their interaction with the deictic category of tense. The domain of inquiry is text. The major concern is the argument that a full description of these constructions' development involves …
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The case for fewer cases in pre-chukotko-kamchatkan: Grammaticalization and semantics in internal reconstruction
… from a single case. I outline the paths of grammaticalization that led to the expanded case system in Proto-Chukotko- Kamchatkan, and I use semantic typology to support the plausibility of these developments. Examples of similar phenomena in other language families are used for comparison as …
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Grammar and grammaticalization in Manda: An analysis of the wider TAM domain in a Tanzanian Bantu language
… diachronic processes of change - particularly grammaticalization - through which they have evolved. As Manda is a basically undescribed language, the thesis also includes a brief socio-historical account - focusing on the issues of contact - as well as a grammar sketch describing the …
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The evolution of constructions: The case of be about to
… corpora parallel Disney's (2009) account of the grammaticalization of be going to for the purpose of comparison. It is found that the emergence of be about to is a complex story involving the development of multiple constructions through time. These findings demonstrate the value of examining …
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<sup>~</sup>° and /--: Their origins, their grammaticalization, and the process of encroachment of the former by the latter from a historical perspective
… This dissertation explores the origin and grammaticalization of <sup>~</sup>° and /--, as well as the process of the encroachment of the former by the latter. The usages of <sup>~</sup>° and /-- are illustrated by semantic features using a binary (+ or -) system in order to show clearly the …
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Information Structure and Constituent Order in EIMI + Participle (Periphrasis) Constructions: A Test Case in the Pseudepigrapha and Apostolic Fathers
… that “periphrasis” has achieved a high level of grammaticalization in Koine Greek. Finally, I consider the way that these pragmatic patterns are implemented in sentences with copula + participle clauses, drawing on Klaas Bentein’s prototype-based model of periphrasis and grammaticalization …
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The function of pronominal expressions in Puxian
… The discussion of reflexive markings focuses on grammaticalization, as different reflexive forms in Puxian assumed interrelated functions along the pathway of grammaticalization. Significantly, some highly grammaticalized functions, e.g. impersonals or anticausatives, are not necessarily …
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Some aspects of word-formation in isiZulu : with special reference to morphological and Lexical processes
… It includes the processes like : affixation, grammaticalization, compounding, reduplication, word coinage as well as borrowing. This means that it covers both the morphological and lexical processes. IsiZulu is one of the most flexible and ever developing languages and through contact with …
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Cycles of agreement: Romance clitics in diachrony
… and the Object Agreement Cycle (OAC). These grammaticalization cycles turn pronouns into agreement morphology on the verb. Both cycles are comprised of three stages. At stage (a) the pronoun is a full DP. At stage (b) the pronoun is reanalyzed as a D-head and at stage (c) it is reanalyzed as …
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Perspectives on fixedness: applied and theoretical
… change is proposed, and its relationship to the grammaticalization cline is discussed. The eclectic approach taken in the book serves the dual function of bridging the gap between applied and theoretical approaches to linguistic research (as the title suggests), and of highlighting …
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The Use of the Present Perfect and Simple Past in New Zealand English
… uncontracted perfects, pointing to an ongoing grammaticalization effect. Taken in its totality, the data demonstrates that New Zealand English usage is largely consistent with other global varieties of English. However, the data shows that younger speakers often favour the simple past in …
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A GENERAL THEORY OF CORRELATIVITY
… in Proto-Indo-European by tracing the grammaticalization paths across early attested Indo-European branches. It is proposed that the evolution from raised headed (cor)relatives to embedded relative clauses involved morphological reanalysis to the precursor of the izafe construction …
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Written Kaaps: The morphological (in-)dependence of het
… lexical het in second position. Supported by the grammaticalization theory (Hopper and Traugott 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 …
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Werden – ein Chamäleon der Sprache : Zum Werdegang von werden
… differing from the ‘normal’ course of a grammaticalization in that it involved no morphological, scarcely any phonological and no true lexical impoverishment of the verb werden. All that was required of the verb was its extreme adaptability, and this property was inherent in its complex …
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