9. What happens after grammaticalization? Post-grammaticalization processes in the area of modality

Hansen, Björn; Olmen, Daniel Van; Cuyckens, Hubert; Ghesquière, Lobke

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“…Therefore, the adverbial origin of možno can be reactivated in requests, i.e., možno transitions from a modal adverb to a modal sentence adverb, cf. lexicalization of možet 'perhaps' in Hansen (2010Hansen ( , 2016 (see Sect. 8 for more detail).…”

Section: Prior Scholarship On Možno + Dat and Možno + Nommentioning

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“…Based on that premise, I suggest that at some stage možno lost the Experiencer and began to be a part of a new construction combined with a personal clause. Hansen (2010Hansen ( , 2016 examines the lexicalization pattern of the Russian modal verb možet byt' 'perhaps' into an epistemic sentence marker možet 'perhaps'. Lexicalization is a "change whereby in certain linguistic contexts speakers use a syntactic construction or a word formation as a new contentful form with formal and semantic properties that are not completely derivable or predictable from the constituents of the construction or the word formation pattern.…”

Section: Development Of the Možno + Nom Constructionmentioning

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“…Over time, there may be further loss of internal constituency and the item may become more lexical" (Brinton & Traugott, 2005: 144). Hansen (2010Hansen ( , 2016 claims that modal infinitival možet byt' construction as in (49) was reanalyzed and, as a result, gave rise to a sentence adverb možet 'perhaps' as in (50). 10 question for requesting permission.…”

Section: Development Of the Možno + Nom Constructionmentioning

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The trajectory of the “Možno ja X?” construction: variation in speech acts of request in contemporary Russian

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I explore the ongoing language change in which the impersonal modal word možno ‘can, be possible’ takes a personal clause (možno + nom) as its complement instead of the Experiencer in the Dative case (možno + dat) and the infinitival clause in the speech act of request in Contemporary Russian. The corpus-based evidence reveals that the construction možno + dat is gradually being replaced by možno + nom. I discuss various syntactic and pragmatic factors such as verb class, aspect, transitivity and politeness strategies that motivate the choice of a specific modal construction. Methods of statistical modelling, used to sort out the most significant factors contributing to the choice of construction, show that the most important factor is the date of creation of the text. I propose a scenario for the development of the možno + nom construction. First, možno began to be used as a tag-question after both infinitive and personal clauses. The requester marked by the Dative has been steadily replaced by the more agentive Subject in the Nominative case. Then, by analogy with the možno + dat construction, možno was placed at the beginning of the sentence and was reanalyzed as a constructional unit with the following structure: možno + finite clause, in which možno functions as a sentence adverb.

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Section: Prior Scholarship On Možno + Dat and Možno + Nommentioning

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The trajectory of the “Možno ja X?” construction: variation in speech acts of request in contemporary Russian

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The “negative end” of change in grammar: terminology, concepts and causes

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2021

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The topic of the “negative end” of change is, unlike the fields of innovation and emergence, largely under-researched. Yet, it has lately started to increasingly gain attention from language scholars worldwide. The main focus of this article is threefold, namely to discuss (i) the terminology, (ii) the concepts, and (iii) the causes associated with the “negative end” of change in grammar. The article begins with an overview of research conducted on the topic. It then moves to situating phenomena referred to as loss, decline or obsolescence among processes of language change before elaborating on the terminology and concepts behind it. The last part of the paper looks at possible causes for constructions to display a gradual or rapid, but very consistent decrease in the frequency of use over time, which continues until the construction disappears or until there are only residual or fossilised forms left.

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In order that– a data-driven study of symptoms and causes of obsolescence

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This paper is an empirical case study of grammatical obsolescence in progress. The main variable of study is the English purpose subordinator in order that, which is shown to be steadily decreasing in its frequency of use, starting from the beginning of the twentieth century. This work applies a data-driven approach for the investigation and description of obsolescence, recently developed by Rudnicka, Karolina. 2019. The Statistics of obsolescence: Purpose subordinators in Late Modern English. NIHIN: New Ideas in Human Interaction: Studies. Freiburg: Rombach. The methodology combines philological analysis with statistical methods used on data acquired from mega-corpora. Moving from the description of possible symptoms of obsolescence to different causes for it, the paper aims at presenting a comprehensive account of the studied phenomenon. Interestingly, a very significant role in the decline of in order that can be ascribed to the so-called higher-order processes, understood as processes influencing the constructional level from above. Two kinds of higher-order processes are shown to play an important role, namely i) an externally-motivated higher-order process exemplified by the drastic socio-cultural changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ii) an internally-motivated higher-order process instantiated by the rise of the to-infinitive (rise of infinite clauses).

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9. What happens after grammaticalization? Post-grammaticalization processes in the area of modality

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The trajectory of the “Možno ja X?” construction: variation in speech acts of request in contemporary Russian

The trajectory of the “Možno ja X?” construction: variation in speech acts of request in contemporary Russian

The “negative end” of change in grammar: terminology, concepts and causes

In order that– a data-driven study of symptoms and causes of obsolescence

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