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Copular verbs out of motion verbs: a comparative analysis of French and Dutch copular systems and processes of copularization

This project aims to study change-of-state semi-copulas, originating from verbs that express physical motion, in a Romance (French) and a Germanic (Dutch) language. The architecture of semi-copulas in both languages (cf. Construction Grammar) and the historical process(es) involved in the creation of semi-copulas (cf. Grammaticalization) are to be compared in the light of the general evolutionary path “motion > change-of-state”.

Date:1 Oct 2014 →  30 Sep 2019
Keywords:semi-copulas, motion verbs
Disciplines:Language studies, Literary studies, Other languages and literary studies, Linguistics, Theory and methodology of linguistics