Systemes prépositionnels des langues romanes: la notion de partie du discours en diachronie

Fagard, Benjamin; Mardale, Alexandru

doi:10.1515/9783110923599.91

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“…We go on to describe the adpositional systems of present-day French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish (Section 5), on the basis of existing lists (e.g. Fagard & Mardale 2007, Fagard 2010. This description enables us to compare the degree of grammaticalization of 2 Or at least in all languages investigated to date in this perspective, to the authors' knowledge.…”

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The pace of grammaticalization and the evolution of prepositional systems: Data from Romance

Fagard

Mardale

2012

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It is generally assumed that grammaticalization is a major process in linguistic change. It is also assumed that grammaticalization does not affect homogeneously all linguistic categories, or even all languages: it has been said, for instance, that some languages are further down most grammaticalization clines than others and, thus, appear to be more grammaticalized than others. In this paper, we illustrate the uneven pace of grammaticalization in Romance by analysing a specific area of language, viz. simple and complex prepositions. Our goal is to establish a list of prepositions which are in actual use in five present-day Romance languages (to wit, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish). In order to do so, we check the validity of existing lists against written and spoken corpora, and evaluate the degree of grammaticalization of each morpheme or construction, on the basis of (mainly) morpho-syntactic criteria. Additionally, and most importantly, a corpus-based approach makes it possible to observe these items' frequency. The result offers a clear picture of the degree of grammaticalization of prepositions in present-day Romance, showing that French seems indeed to be the most grammaticalized Romance language, followed by Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian.

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The pace of grammaticalization and the evolution of prepositional systems: Data from Romance

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2012

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“…How should they be defined? There have been a few studies on complex adpositions in individual Romance languages (for instance Spanish, Cifuentes Honrubia 2003, or Portuguese, Lima 2014, 2019a, and a few papers on complex adpositions in Romance languages in general (for instance Fagard & Mardale 2007), there is still much to say. With a corpus-based analysis focusing on three Romance languages, French, Portuguese and Romanian, the authors show that some features of complex adpositions are common to most if not all varieties, while some seem to be specificities of one or more Romance language(s).…”

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“…Few papers are devoted to the study of complex adpositions in a more general (e.g. in Romance languages, Fagard & Mardale 2007) or theoretical perspective (Seppänen et al 1994, Meibauer 1995, Adler 2001, as well as a few papers comparing simple and complex adpositions (e.g. Fagard & De Mulder 2007, Fagard 2012.…”

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