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The construction lo que pasa es que ‘what happens is that’ is a Spanish discourse marker that was originally a pseudo-cleft construction. Before becoming grammaticalized, the verb pasar contained its full lexical meaning ‘to happen,’ but later evolved int... see more

Keywords: sociolinguistics variationist; functionalism; sociofunctionalism; grammaticalization; phonetic reduction; item estar ‘be’; change.

This paper discusses the evolution of the Chinese verb ? (duàn ‘break’), exploring how the lexicon has transformed from being a substantive transitive verb in the past to the various functions it fulfils in contemporary Chinese: i.e. a resultative complem... see more

The present paper demonstrates that insights from the affordances perspective can contribute to developing a more comprehensive model of grammaticalization. The authors argue that the grammaticalization process is afforded differently depending on the val... see more

The purpose of this research is to investigate the diachronic evolution of the word “like” and its variants “likely”, “like to”, “feel like”, and “would like to”, etc. in the process of grammaticalization. Statistics from the search of corpora BNC and COH... see more

Polish in the light of grammaticalization theoryThe paper is concerned with grammaticalization, a type of language change whereby lexical items, in specifi contexts, come to serve grammatical functions, and grammatical items acquire new grammatical functi... see more

Palavras-chave: eis que; vez que; conectivos causais; variação; gramaticalização.Keywords: eis que; vez que; causal connectives; variation; grammaticalization..

The article discusses the development of complex items that may carry grammatical as well as pragmatic functions. We describe the development of the Estonian complex conjunction nii et ‘so that’ which started out as the free combination of the proadverb n... see more

This paper is an investigation of grammatical relations marking that combines the advances of monolingual analysis with cross-linguistic comparison. It examines adpositions as grammatical relations markers and the linguistic change which leads to the rise... see more

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