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It is well known that grammaticalization (whereby lexical items develop into grammatical ones; Meillet 1912; Hopper & Traugott 2003:2) is a composite phenomenon, consisting of a number of micro-level changes that give rise to broader patterns (Lehmann 2002:108–153; Norde 2009:120). While a form might exhibit a high degree of grammaticalization in t...
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... is this certainly a subjective criterion, subjective does not mean arbitrary, and Swadesh's intuitions on these matters still provide us with potentially useful insights in the aggregate. Table 6 shows the number of preverb + verb entries in the lexicon for each preverb. The resulting count is drastically different from the overall counts for preverb frequencies. ...
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