2020
DOI: 10.1111/1467-968x.12188
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POLAR QUESTION PARTICLES AND THEIR SOURCES: A SEMANTIC APPROACH TO GRAMMATICALISATION1

Abstract: This study investigates the semantic systematicity in the pathways through which various functional markers become polar question particles (PQPs). This research proposes that the high degree of semantic cohesion between sources and targets suggests that a pre‐existing semantic component radically increases the likelihood of some markers becoming PQPs. It observes that all functional classes which have been noted to become PQPs in various languages share semantic similarities, meaning that they can all be anal… Show more

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“…Syntactic case (Lestrade 2010) Each category on the cline tends to develop from the one on its left. For instance, the Estonian comitative suffix -GA originates from the comitative postposition KAAS (Rätsep 1979, Aigro 2020) and the Estonian syntactic object case, partitive, can be traced back to separative, a spatial case (Rätsep 1979).…”
Section: Grammaticalisation Clinementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Syntactic case (Lestrade 2010) Each category on the cline tends to develop from the one on its left. For instance, the Estonian comitative suffix -GA originates from the comitative postposition KAAS (Rätsep 1979, Aigro 2020) and the Estonian syntactic object case, partitive, can be traced back to separative, a spatial case (Rätsep 1979).…”
Section: Grammaticalisation Clinementioning
confidence: 99%