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Age-based variation and patterns of recent language change : a case-study of morphological and lexical intensifiers in Spanish Ghent University
On the grammaticalization of the deverbal epistemic pragmatic marker sabes : a study in recent language change Ghent University
Case-study of recent language change : the intensifier mazo (de) in 21st century Spanish teenage talk Ghent University
Finding footprints: Evidence for the role of analogy in language change KU Leuven
Although analogy has often been invoked as a mechanism for language change, its explanatory power remains controversial, mainly due to a lack of independent evidence for the workings of analogy in language change (Kiparsky 1974; Plag 2003; Fischer 2018). This PhD project aims to find precisely such evidence. It was hypothesized that analogical support influences how a change unfolds, meaning that analogy leaves traces behind. In a series of ...
Language change in constructional networks. The development of the English Secondary Predicate Construction KU Leuven
This study investigates the development of the English Secondary Predicate Construction, against the background of current views on language change. A Secondary Predicate Construction, or SPC, consists of a verb, a noun phrase (NP), and an Xphrase (XP). The NP and XP are in a predicative relation, similar to a subject-predicate relation in a copular clause. In (1a) for instance, consider him handsome involves a verb (consider), an NP (him), and ...
The use of Citétaal among adolescents in Limburg: the role of space appropriation in language variation and change KU Leuven
The term Citétaal was originally used to refer to the language spoken by Italian immigrants in the Eastern part of Flanders (Limburg) and diffused in the former ghettoised mining areas (the cité). It is a melting pot language, based on Dutch but with a high amount of code mixture from immigrant languages, mostly Italian and Turkish. Recently, its use seems to be spreading among speakers in Limburg and particularly in the area of Genk, which is ...
Culturally conditioned language change? A multi-variate analysis of genitive constructions in in ARCHER KU Leuven
© Cambridge University Press 2014. This chapter is concerned with the development of two competing NP constructions in Late Modern English (LModE), the s-genitive, as in (1), and the of-genitive, as in (2). (1) before [the Seneschal]s [Brother] could arrive, he was secured by the Governor of Newport (2) the Duke of Norfolk, having lately received another Challenge from [theBrother] of [the Seneschal], went to the place appointed Historically ...