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Negation, grammaticalization and language change in North Africa: the case of the negator NEG___bu Ghent University
Possessives and grammaticalization in Romance Ghent University
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
Degrees of grammaticalization in three Romance languages: A comparative analysis of existential constructions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Grammaticalization is generally assumed to be a gradual process and languages are thought to be grammaticalized to different degrees. For Romance languages, it has often been claimed that French is far more grammaticalized than Spanish, and that Italian occupies an intermediate position between these two. The aim of this study is to investigate to what extent this claim applies to existential constructions. In present-day French, Italian and ...
Crosslinguistic data as evidence in the grammaticalization debate: the case of discourse markers Ghent University
This article examines two case studies of cognate expressions in English and in French, which have developed partly in the same and partly in different directions. One case is the pair actually: actuellement, the other is the set in fact: en fait/de fait/au fait. Monolingual research on their present-day meanings and the study of their translation paradigms bring to light semantic and pragmatic overlap as well as differences between the members ...