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Grammaticalization and language change: new reflections Ghent University
This collective volume focuses on the latest developments in the study of grammaticalization and related processes of change such as degrammaticalization, constructionalization, lexicalization, and petrification. It addresses topical issues relating to the motivations, sources, defining features, and outcomes of these changes. New theoretical reflections are offered on the pragmatic motivation of grammaticalization paths, process-oriented ...
At the crossroads of grammaticalization and pragmaticalization: a diachronic cross-linguistic case study on vraiment and really Ghent University
From grammaticalization to Diachronic Construction Grammar : a natural evolution of the paradigm Ghent University
Diverging grammaticalization patterns across Spanish varieties : the case of perdón in Mexican and peninsular Spanish Ghent University
This study investigates the contemporary grammaticalized uses of perdón (‘sorry’) in two varieties of Spanish, namely Mexican and Peninsular Spanish. Methodologically, the investigation is based on a taxonomy of offenses, organized around the concept of ‘face’ and based on spoken data of Spanish from Mexico and Spain. This taxonomy turns out to be a fruitful methodological tool for the analysis of apologetic markers: it does not only offer ...
Habitual auxiliaries in Ancient Greek : grammaticalization and diachronic collocation shifts Ghent University
This article discusses the grammaticalization of the habitual auxiliaries εἴωθα, φιλέω, ἐθέλω and νομίζω in Archaic and Classical Greek. I aim to (1) provide a more complete understanding of the Ancient Greek expressions of habituality; (2) distinguish clearly between habitual aspect and (possibly diachronically) related semantic categories such as iterativity and genericity; (3) demonstrate the usefulness of grammaticalization and collocation ...
A multifactorial analysis of that/zero alternation : a diachronic study of the grammaticalization of the zero complementizer construction with think, guess and understand Ghent University
This corpus-based study uses a stepwise logistic regression analysis to examine the diachronic development of that/zero alternation with three verbs of cognition, viz. think, guess and understand in both spoken and written corpora from 1560U+20132012. Eleven structural features which have been claimed in the literature to predict the presence of the zero complementizer form are tested to see if (1) there is indeed a diachronic trend towards more ...