Items for "grammaticalisation"

Motivations for second position: Evidence from North-Central Australia

It has long been observed that many languages from all over the world require that certain grammatical categories (e.g., person, number, tense, modality) occur in the “second position” of a clause...

Keywords: Australian languages, auxiliary, clitic, clitic cluster, cliticisation, focus, Garrwa, grammaticalisation, information packaging, pronoun, second position, tense-aspect-modality, Wambaya, Warlpiri, word order