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Towards a constructional account of high and low frequency binominal quantifiers in Spanish KU Leuven
This paper aims to provide a clearer understanding of the widely discussed topic of grammaticalization of constructions. One unresolved problem concerns the identification of the relevant constructional level of language change, i.e., either the substantial level of specific occurrences or the schematic level of generalizations. Another issue addressed in many current analyses is the degree of schematicity of analogical forces. The present case ...
Continuity, change, and linguistic recycling in Flemish dialects : negation, polarity focus, and mirativity Universiteit Gent
The present paper revisits Neuckerman’s (2008) proposal concerning the geographic distribution and diachronic genesis of different functions of the particle /en/, a remnant of Jespersen’s Cycle in the Southern Dutch dialects, and addresses van der Auwera’s (2009) claim that en may in some dialects of Dutch have developed into a non-negative marker of clausal subordination at the end of the cycle. Based on a 400,000-word corpus of spontaneous ...
A comparative study of the grammaticalized uses of English "sort (of)" and French "genre (de)" in teenage forum data KU Leuven
This paper sets out to capture language change at its forefront by studying specific data, teenage forum posts, expected to be innovative for many reasons. These data are speech-like, informal exchanges between peers, that is, they have the situational features that most promote change. Moreover, they represent communication from the most innovative age group of language users, teenagers, on the linguistically non-prescriptive Internet. ...
English adjectives of comparison: lexical and grammaticalized uses KU Leuven
The book is concerned with a hitherto underresearched grammaticalization process: the development from quality-attributing adjective to determiner in the English noun phrase. It takes a bottom-up approach, based on extensive synchronic and diachronic corpus studies of six English adjectives of comparison: other, different, same, identical, similar and comparable. Their functional diversity in current English is proposed to constitute a case of ...