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Grammaticalisation de la périphrase gan en moyen-anglais
No full textHancil Sylvie. Grammaticalisation de la périphrase gan en moyen-anglais. In: Bulletin des anglicistes médiévistes, N°77, Été 2010. pp. 49-69
Remplacement de l'auxiliaire beon par l'auxiliaire habban dans la périphrase du parfait
No full textHancil Sylvie. Remplacement de l'auxiliaire beon par l'auxiliaire habban dans la périphrase du parfait. In: Bulletin des anglicistes médiévistes, N°72, Hiver 2007. pp. 1-20
Le parfait en vieil-anglais : émergence du niveau énonciatif
No full textHancil Sylvie. Le parfait en vieil-anglais : émergence du niveau énonciatif. In: Bulletin des anglicistes médiévistes, N°78, Hiver 2010. pp. 1-32
Valeur d'emploi, portée, relief : Observations descriptives et explicatives sur la relation entre position et interprétation des connecteurs
No full textThe different developments of progressive aspect markers be in the middle/midst of and be in the process of V-ing: mechanisms of change
No full textThis case study reconstructs the grammaticalization paths of middle, midst and process, which led to a set of progressive aspect markers (PAMs) in Present-day English. The three PAMs developed from two different source structures, viz. complex prepositions in the middle/midst of + NP and complex appositive noun phrase the process of + NP. The main theoretical aim of the diachronic reconstruction is to identify and characterize the main mechanisms of change that affected the different structures with these nouns on their grammaticalization trajectories: (i) reanalysis in the sense of functional reparsing of an existing structure; (ii) analogization: the attraction of new functional properties to an existing structure; (iii) neo-analysis by analogy: the creation of a functional structure that is new in the item’s trajectory of change. We also discuss how these mechanisms of change interact with enabling factors such as metaphor and metonymy, collocational fixation, expansion and reclustering, and discursive functions.status: Publishe
Different Slants on Grammaticalization
No full textThis volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of grammars. In this volume, grammaticalization is dealt with diachronically, synchronically and as a by-product of dialogic interaction. Another key feature of this book is language diversity; as it includes studies on language families ranging from Niger-Congo, Koreanic, Japonic, Sino-Tibetan to Germanic and Romance. The novel aspects of grammaticalization addressed are new slants on the fundamental debate about grammaticalization as expansion vs reduction; the grammatical formation of ideophones; the semantic domain of fear as a source and a trigger of grammatical change, and many other aspects of semantic and morphosyntactic development
Could be, might be, maybe : Mechanisms of grammaticalization in synchronic use and perception
No full textIn grammaticalization, functional reanalysis and formal reduction are often regarded as elements of a unified diachronic process, though rooted in general communicative and cognitive preferences. The present study tests these claims in synchronic language use by investigating potential cases of grammaticalization. Epistemic phrases of the type (it) could/might be (that) in English are potential candidates for grammaticalizing into sentence adverb(ial)s. The question is whether shorter forms (here, it-omission) are preferred in potentially grammaticalizing contexts, e.g. modifying a main clause ((it) could be this is correct). I first summarize a corpus study, where overall higher rates of it-omission are found in critical context across items (could be, might be) and register (spoken, informal writing). A ‘continuous shadowing’ experiment partly confirms this finding but also shows that speakers/hearers are both more flexible and more conservative with could/might be than with maybe / it may be that. The findings suggest that grammaticalizing contexts have an immediate effect on formal reduction even in the absence of change, and that language users have an active intuition for emerging variational patterns
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