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Grammaticalization in Russian-lexifier pidgins Ghent University
Grammaticalization and subjectification in the semantic domain of possibility in Kirundi (Bantu, JD62) Ghent University
Evaluating grammaticalization and constructional accounts : the development of the inchoative construction with put verbs in Spanish Ghent University
Grammaticalization in the official formula zoals voorzeid is Ghent University
A semiotic approach to grammaticalization: modelling representational and interpersonal modality expressed by verbonominal patterns KU Leuven
This paper develops a framework capable of analysing modal qualifications coded by both canonical modal markers and grammaticalized expressions within a semiotic grammar approach (McGregor 1997). We focus on grammatical constructions that developed from complement constructions containing the shell nouns need, way, chance, doubt, question and wonder, often preceded by a negative quantifier. We range the different types of modal qualification in ...
The Role of Frequency in Grammaticalization: Long Passive with by in English KU Leuven University of Antwerp
Lexicalization and grammaticalization: The case of the verbo-nominal expressions be on the/one’s way/road KU Leuven University of Antwerp
In this article we show that verbo-nominal expressions be on the/one’s way/road emerged as lexical composite predicates in Old English. These templates came to be elaborated by directional adjuncts, adjuncts describing states or events, and purpose clauses. In Late Modern English, the structure with to-infinitive was functionally reinterpreted as secondary auxiliary + lexical head, whose core sense is imminential aspect. This case study forms ...
Lexicalization and grammaticalization: modal modifier constructions with "no question" KU Leuven
In this article we reconstruct the paths that led to the two modal modifier constructions with no question in Present-day English: the adverbial and parenthetical there is no question. The grammaticalized clausal structures are shown to be the result of multiple reanalyses at microconstructional level. The first reanalyses, starting in Middle English, led to lexicalized composite predicates and clauses with the meanings of ‘be (un)challengeable’ ...