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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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... way to measure this is by the number of verbs that each preverb can occur with, since the more productive a preverb is across lexemes, the more grammaticalized it has become. This was done using a representative sample, and the result of this count is shown in Table 4. 3 This count was obtained by using a subset of all the verbs in the corpus. ...Context 2
... was then easy to sort by stem and combine equivalent verbs. Table 4 shows a pattern similar to the frequency counts in Table 1, with one noticeable difference: the preverb ni appears with a significantly greater proportion of verb roots than its overall frequency would suggest. While ni is only the third most frequent preverb overall, it is by far the most productive, occurring with more verb roots than any other. ...Similar publications
Grammaticalization has proven to be an insightful approach to semantic-morphosyntactic change within and across languages. Many studies, however, rely on assessing the large, obvious differences before and after the change. When investigating burgeoning or ongoing grammaticalization processes, it is notably harder to objectively measure the degree...
The grammaticalization of nouns meaning ‘man’ or ‘person’ into impersonal pronouns (so-called 'man'-impersonals) has been related to languages with obligatory subject expression, like Germanic languages and French. Albeit regarded as a null-subject language, European Portuguese (EP) presents a similar development: the noun phrases 'uma pessoa' ‘a p...
