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 challenging the insights of grammaticalization theory, the different contributions to this monograph demonstrate that exaptation, capitalization, refunctionalization and adfunctionalization, as well as changes motivated by rhetorical guidelines, constitute interesting and valuable notions that allow for a better understanding of specific language changes in Spanish and, by extension, of language change in general.