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End and finality. On Slavic units derived from compositions with the nouns koniec, край, конец KU Leuven
This article presents a case study in the field of interlingual analysis of units with non-representational meaning, with special focus on Slavic languages. The units analysed are a) based on finality nouns, b) (almost) identical in form and c) similar in meaning but not in usage. By examining grammaticalized expressions derived from compositions with Polish nouns koniec ‘end’, ostateczność ‘finality’ and their Bulgarian and Russian equivalents, ...
How do grammatical patterns emerge? The origins and development of the English proper noun modifier construction KU Leuven
This article studies the emergence of a grammatical pattern, the proper noun modifier construction shown in the Obama administration, an Edinburgh restaurant. The only dedicated historical corpus study, by Rosenbach (2007, 2010), is limited in terms of time depth and data included, and suggests that only proper noun modifiers denoting places such as Edinburgh are found in the early seventeenth century. Using corpus data that span the full ...
Optional and alternating case marking: Typology and diachrony KU Leuven
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd This paper presents a survey of the typology and diachrony of optional and alternating case marking, in the context of related phenomena such as referent- and construction-based splits. While there is much recent work in this area, driven by text-based approaches to language description, as well as quantitative and areal approaches to typology, the domain remains somewhat scattered, conceptually and ...
Constructions waxing and waning: A diachronic overview of the zero-Secondary Predicate Construction KU Leuven
In the English Secondary Predicate Construction (SPC), a predicative relation between a noun phrase (NP) and a “secondary predicate” (XP) is established by a main verb (He findsVerb herNP attractiveXP). While the syntactic nature of this construction has received ample attention from a synchronic perspective, this study aims to shed light on the diachronic developments of the SPC. First, using data from the YorkToronto-Helsinki Corpus of Old ...
Non-Prototypical Clefts KU Leuven
This special issue of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics contains selected papers of the International Workshop on Non-Prototypical Clefts, organised at KU Leuven (15-16 December 2016). The papers cover a range of languages and zoom in on different aspects of different types of non-prototypical clefts.