b. Let's watch a movie. (3) Lets give you a hand. (= I'll give you a hand') Case study 2: lets' ... Christmas is coming up soon. Metaphor. Metaphor ...
Title: Dia 1 Author: NORDE Last modified by: RuG Created Date: 11/14/2005 9:41:02 AM Document presentation format: Diavoorstelling Company: RUG Other titles
World Atlas of Language Structures. Dryer's map on Case. VO and OV ... The World Atlas of Language Structures. Hauser, Marc, Noam Chomsky, & Tecumseh Fitch 2002. ...
Priming as a driving force in grammaticalization: on the track of unidirectionality ... gerhard.jaeger@uni-bielefeld.de. Anette Rosenbach. University of D sseldorf, ...
Meanings' of the evidentials' (Willet, 1988) Direct Evidence. Visual ... Willet, T. 1988. A cross-linguistic survey of the grammaticalization of evidentiality. ...
Typological Drift of IE Syntax ... of grammaticalizations: ... The men whom some say are mouthpieces of the gods (Thornton Wilder, 'The Ides of March' ...
Title: Modal verbs in Balto-Finnic Last modified by: Reeli Torn Document presentation format: On-screen Show Other titles: Times New Roman Tahoma Lucida Sans Unicode ...
Aspects of Language Change Prepared by Mariam Bedraoui Outline Lexical Change Borrowing Coining new words Semantic Change Broadening Narrowing Shifts of meaning Sound ...
Lack of codification and elaboration. A language learned at home. Functionally restricted ... no elaborate morphological structures. pidcreo 00. Lifecycles of Pidgins ...
In Maba there is ndu skin' next to n f s soul, person' (Trenga 1947: 64-5) ... Le bura-mabang du Ouadai: notes pour servir l' tude de la langue maba. ...
More precisely, linguists have a term to describe the ... Accusative to ergative shift involved Reanalysis. To review: the shift from accusative to ergative ...
determine if puerto ricans still pick up AAE through contact or if aspects have ... majority have casual contact - enough to support phonological variables but not ...
It still seems salvageable but is it better to see things in terms of features? 14 ... Colloquial French, Yiddish, etc (1) jene vos hobn gezen zajne kuncn ...
Participant-internal possibility (Dynamic possibility, Ability) ... e.g. lack of agentive noun ending in ja *tulla v ija. one who can come' b. ta v ib tulla ...
Priming and language evolution. Gerhard J ger (University of Bielefeld) Anette Rosenbach ... Integrating formal and functional perspectives on language change ...
nilikisoma I read it (the book)' tutaalwile we did not fight' ... finals. STEM. initials. Parts of the Pan-Bantu Slot System (PBSS) The trapping of medials ' ...
WORKING BACKWARDS FROM MODERN LANGUAGE TO PROTO-GRAMMAR Sverker Johansson School of Education & Communication University of J nk ping, Sweden Our early ancestors ...
... deletion of the dative preposition is probably the correct ... into causative verbs and causative verbs developing into passive prepositions. [ in Chinese] ...
Grammaticization as a diachronic process. Grammaticization as historical ... concurrent with reanalysis: by side (P N) beside; by hind behind; by fore before ...
Lund University Centre for Cognitive Semiotics School of Linguistics Chris Sinha Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK christopher.sinha@semiotik.lu.se
Pour une syntaxe sans ellipse 1- Les nouvelles syntaxes sans ellipse 2- typologie des raccourcis de constructions 3- Les propri t s prosodiques des raccourcis ...
Comrie, B. (1976: 89-90) ... Comrie, Bernard. 1976. Aspect. CUP. Dickey, Stephen M. 2000. Parameters of Slavic aspect: A cognitive approach. Stanford: CSLI.
Newer research suggests recent provenience of Modern Russian aspect system ... Standard works on Proto-Slavic & OCS suggest little change over past millenium, but: ...
a. Hamisi a-li-pika chakula. Hamisi 3sg-past-cook food `Hamisi cooked the/some food.' b. Chakula ki-li-pika-wa (na Hamisi) food 3sg-past-cook-pass by Hamisi ` ...
Contact situations: Latin, Celtic, Scandinavian (Viking), Norman French, Central ... Rhymes. Translations. Modern dialects as mirrors to the past. Linguists' ...
Title: Gender Differences and Consonants' Distribution in Georgian Proper Nouns: Phonetic Symbolism? Author: CHANGE_ME1 Last modified by: user Created Date
Goldin-Meadow) Conventional 'emblems' Gesture is a universal ... No big surprise, since in actual. communication, these distinctions are inevitable. ...
... (2004), van der Auwera & Malchukov (in press), van der Auwera & Temurcu (in press) ... The apples are concave valley that faces me-bowl. D: The apples are ...
Nom hrdin-a hrdin-ov. Gen hrdin-y hrdin- Dat hrdin-ovi hrdin- m Acc hrdin-u hrdin-y ... Frequency as 'guide' Frequency as 'constraint' ... Frequency as 'guide' ...
Title: Gender Differences and Consonants' Distribution in Georgian Proper Nouns: Phonetic Symbolism? Author: CHANGE_ME1 Last modified by: Rusiko Created Date
V. Recapitulation. 1. Blocking of syntagmatic changes: pronoun clitic AGR ... V. Recapitulation. 2. Influence on grammaticalisation pathways: pronoun ...
Title: Il mutamento linguistico e la grammaticalizzazione: problemi generali e illustrazioni empiriche Author: anna Last modified by: utente Created Date
Language use has an impact on the represen-tation, ... stope. climb. creep. laugh. yield. step. New Form. Old Form. 9/22/09. 26. The development of do-support ...
Corpus data represent usage, not grammar. Usage data indirectly reflect social and ... Many grammatical changes appear to be glacial from the usage data. ...
The (grammatical) status of a (linguistic) expression S is decided ... unless providing a stronger statement would contravene the I-principle. 11/28-29/2005 ...
There are no overt inanimate ( low potency') agentive pronouns ... If an agentive phrase is used, it is clear that the indefinite A construction is ...
Source: Quechua vs. English (they say) s/he was singing -- takisharansi ... SL syntactic parser can still be hard to come by. Divergences and DUSTer ...
... cf Thepkanjana's data several Thai SVCs appear to have ... Thai. Bardi. Farsi. Lexical' verb implies listed in the mental lexicon with its own entry' ...
Lund University Centre for Cognitive Semiotics School of Linguistics Chris Sinha Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK christopher.sinha@semiotik.lu.se