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Items for "semantic change"

Semantic and functional diversification of reciprocal and middle prefixes in New Caledonian and other Austronesian languages

This article analyses the functions and meanings of the reflexes of the Proto-Oceanic (POc) prefix *paRi- in New Caledonian languages and, based on comparisons with other Austronesian languages, seeks to account for their broad polyfunctionality and polysemy in New Caledonia...

Keywords: aspect, Austronesian, collective, cooperative, iterative, middle, New Caledonia, Oceanic, pluractionality, polysemy, reciprocal, reduplication, reflexive, semantic change, transitivity, voice

06/2005 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter
From possibility to prohibition: A rare grammaticalization pathway

It is generally assumed that the development of modality proceeds in a unidirectional manner from deontic to epistemic meaning...

Keywords: deontic, epistemic, grammaticalization, imperative, modality, mood, negation, potential, prohibitive, semantic change

12/2007 | Linguistic Typology, Walter de Gruyter