Gradualness of grammaticalization in Romance. The position of French, Spanish and Italian

Mulder, Walter De; Lamiroy, Béatrice

doi:10.1075/slcs.130.08mul

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“…This is the case for instance of determiners, with three paradigms in French and only two in almost all other Romance varieties (Carlier 2007): French has a partitive article which is absent or not completely grammaticalized elsewhere (in Lehmann's terms, the degree of grammaticalization is higher in French on account of paradigmaticity, Lehmann 1995: 123). Similar accounts can be given for demonstratives (Marchello-Nizia 2006: 178), auxiliaries and tense, aspect and modality markers (Lamiroy 1999;De Mulder 2001;De Mulder & Lamiroy 2012); this analysis could even be extended to other areas of language, such as conjunctions, prepositions and discourse markers (Fagard 2010;Fagard & Mardale 2012).…”

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“…In other Romance languages the choice between subjunctive and indicative remains meaningful in a variety of contexts: the subjunctive mood still has a semantic value. On the contrary, in French, the choice of subjunctive vs. indicative often results from grammatical constraints: for French speakers, more than for instance for speakers of Italian or Spanish, there is an important loss of paradigmatic variability in the use of the subjunctive, as noted by De Mulder and Lamiroy (2012). In this perspective, the subjunctive can be said to have lost (much of) its semantic value in French; in other words, it is more grammaticalized than in 'Central Romance' -in Lehmann's terms, the loss of (here paradigmatic) "variability" is indeed one of the "three main aspects of grammaticalization" (Lehmann 1995: 123).…”

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Syntactic and semantic aspects of Romance complementizers

Fagard¹,

Pietrandrea²,

Glikman³

2016

Complementizer Semantics in European Languages

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Syntactic and semantic aspects of Romance complementizers

Fagard¹,

Pietrandrea²,

Glikman³

2016

Complementizer Semantics in European Languages

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“…What makes it all the more intriguing is the fact that French cannot be said to have undergone less changes than Italian with respect to Latin; if anything, rather the opposite (seeDe Mulder and Lamiroy 2012).Within-type variation in Satellite-framed languages…”

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Within-type variation in Satellite-framed languages: The case of Serbian

Fagard

Stošić

Cerruti

2017

STUF - Language Typology and Universals

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After a wealth of studies on motion event descriptions, it seems hard to say something new: the Verb-framed/Satellite-framed typology proposed by Talmy has spawned a long debate. Among other things, previous work has shown within-type variation for one of the two language types defined by Talmy, namely Verb-framed languages. In this paper, we address this debate, showing within-type variation for the other type, Satellite-framed languages, with new data elicited from native speakers of Serbian. In order to do so, we compare it with five other languages, from three Indo-European language families (Romance, Germanic and Slavic). Our data show that Serbian is a particularly interesting case, since it is structurally Satellite-framed, but behaves like Verb-framed languages in that speakers do not always express manner and path jointly (i.e. manner in the verb and path in the satellite), as expected on the basis of Talmy’s typology. The main result of our paper is thus that there is a good deal of within-type variation for both language types identified by Talmy.

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“…Still, note that even Darwin (1859: 422) already argued that languages change at different paces. Carlier et al 2012, and references cited therein;De Mulder and Lamiroy 2012). For the Romance language family, Posner (1996: 185) posits the idea that "each language is tracking at different speeds along tramlines that lead in the same direction from the same starting point".…”

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12. External possessors in West Germanic and Romance: Differential speed in the drift toward NP configurationality

Velde¹,

Lamiroy²

2016

Aspects of Grammaticalization

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This paper inquires into the external possessor in West Germanic and Romance. Against other accounts in the literature, it argues that the distribution of the dative external possessor can be explained neither by reference to Standard Average European nor by direct substrate influence. Instead, it argues that its diachronic decline is better explained as the result of increased configurationality or a tighter structure of the noun phrase. Although the emergence of a tight NP structure may itself be traced back to language contact factors, substrate influence on the diachrony of the external possessor is shown to be more indirect than what is suggested in the literature. The increase in configurationality can be considered a case of constructional grammaticalization (i.e. constructionalization), as the slots for determination and modification become progressively more fixed. One of the main claims here is that this grammaticalization process proceeds at different rates in cognate languages.(1) German Die Mutter wäscht dem Kind die Haare. the mother washes the.DAT child the hair 'The mother is washing the child's hair. ' (König and Haspelmath 1998: 526) (2) SpanishNo le he visto la cara. not 3SG.DAT have.1SG seen the face 'I have not seen his face.' (Lamiroy and Delbecque 1998: 29)

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Gradualness of grammaticalization in Romance. The position of French, Spanish and Italian

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Syntactic and semantic aspects of Romance complementizers

Syntactic and semantic aspects of Romance complementizers

Within-type variation in Satellite-framed languages: The case of Serbian

12. External possessors in West Germanic and Romance: Differential speed in the drift toward NP configurationality

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