Grammaticalization as Economy

Gelderen, Elly van

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“…In particular, we demonstrated that the grammaticalization of two different kinds of sign language agreement auxiliaries involves reanalysis 'upwards' along the functional structure -in line with what has been suggested for spoken language grammaticalization (Roberts & Roussou 2003;van Gelderen 2004.…”

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“…by lexical insertion) if the lexicon contains such a matrix for F. Merge is always preferred over Move, as it is more economical. In van Gelderen (2004van Gelderen ( , 2011b, this is formulated as the Late Merge Principle (LMP): Merge as late as possible.…”

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“…i.a. Roberts and Roussou 2003, van Gelderen 2004, Roberts 2007. Both minimisers like pas and forms meaning 'nothing' would, for example, initially have been merged in structurally low positions, e.g.…”

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'Nie sommer nie': Sociohistorical and formal comparative considerations in the rise and maintenance of the modern Afrikaans negation system

Biberauer¹

2015

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“…In such instances, there would then also be a change in the mapping between the two dimensions. This distinguishes this approach from accounts of linguistic change within some other frameworks, as illustrated by a comparison with Roberts & Roussou 2003or van Gelderen 2004, where the changes in form and function are assumed to be more closely matched.…”

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Growing syntax: The development of a DP in North Germanic

Börjars¹,

Harries²,

Vincent³

2016

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Grammaticalization as standardly conceived is a change whereby an item develops from a lexical to a grammatical or functional meaning, or from being less to more grammatical. In this article we show that this can only be part of the story; for a full account we need to understand the syntactic structures into which grammaticalizing elements fit and how they too develop. To achieve this end we consider in detail the history of definiteness marking within the noun phrase in North Germanic, and in particular in Faroese. We show how this change requires us to distinguish between projecting and nonprojecting categories, and how a category can emerge over time and only subsequently develop into a head with its own associated functional projection. The necessary structure, rather than being intrinsic to an aprioristic universal grammar, grows over time as part of the grammaticalization process. We suggest that this in turn argues for a parallel correspondence theory of grammar such as the one adopted here, lexical-functional grammar, in which different dimensions of linguistic structure can change at different rates.*

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Grammaticalization as Economy

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'Nie sommer nie': Sociohistorical and formal comparative considerations in the rise and maintenance of the modern Afrikaans negation system

Growing syntax: The development of a DP in North Germanic

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