Studies in Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Grammaticalization, Refunctionalization and Beyond

• Main Author: Garachana, Mar (auth)
• Other Authors: Nieuwenhuijsen, Dorien (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: preferentiality; n/a; Latin mediante; Old Spanish; first-person plural of haber; analogical extension; absolute clause; discursive tradition; Castilian articles; context; Spanish; definiteness; syntax variation; past participle construction; syntactic borrowing; prepositional value; reanalysis; resultatives; < capitalization; connector; specialization; exaptation; evolutionary process; adfunctionalization; ante-antes; elision; language change; grammaticalization; frequency effects; Latinisms; grammatical calque; construction; historical linguistics; auxiliaries; folk etymology; adversativity; existential verb form habemos; temporality; refunctionalization; indefiniteness; participle clause; indefinite article + possessive + noun&gt
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The present volume examines the usefulness of a particular set of concepts and processes of change studying their applicability to a range of linguistic changes in Spanish and Latin that cannot be easily or can only be partially accounted for within the framework of grammaticalization. Rather than c...