Remarks on the English grounding systems

Langacker, Ronald W.; Brisard, Frank

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“…To this end, we investigated two adjectives which have postdeterminer uses relating to the nominal deictic notions of space and quantity 8 (Langacker 2002b), opposite and complete. As noted by Bolinger (1967), nouns incorporating a temporal dimension may take postdeterminers that temporally or modally qualify the implied state or event, as in the future king, a sure win (Bolinger 1967: 20).…”

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Deictification: the development of secondary deictic meanings by adjectives in the English NP

Davidse¹,

Breban²,

linden³

2008

English Language and Linguistics

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In this article we make a case for recognizing deictification as a type of grammaticalization and semantic shift in the NP analogous to auxiliarization in the VP. The specific analogy we point out is between lexical verbs that grammaticalize into secondary auxiliaries bound by the finite, as in is going to, has to + verb, and lexically full adjectives that grammaticalize into postdeterminers bound by the primary determiner, as in a different, the same + noun. We present five case studies of the development of postdeterminer meanings, based on the analysis of diachronic and synchronic data. The adjectives studied are opposite, complete, old, regular and necessary, whose postdeterminer uses relate to the basic deictic systems of space, quantity, time and modality. Our analysis of the data shows that the mechanism of secondary deictification can be given a unified characterization as the semantic shift by which a general relation expressed by the adjective is given a subjective reference point in or relative to the speech event.

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“…Unlike Langacker (2002b), who strongly contrasts spatial nominal deixis with temporal clausal deixis, Nuyts (2005: 19, 22) stresses that SoAs are situated both in time and space, with time having scope over space. Assessing the temporal and spatial Figure 1.…”

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Deictification: the development of secondary deictic meanings by adjectives in the English NP

Davidse¹,

Breban²,

linden³

2008

English Language and Linguistics

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“…La notion de texte, donc, renvoie aux séquences connexes de signes et de signaux, dans leur signification conventionnelle, telles qu'elles sont produites par l'énonciateur et (dans le cadre des interactions parlées familières) également par le coénonciateur. Certains des signes et signaux ainsi produits pointent vers des manières possibles d'ancrer le discours à construire dans un contexte particulier, en termes cognitifs (voir aussi Langacker, 2002aLangacker, , 2002b. Ces signaux correspondent à ce que Gumperz (1992a, p. 234) dénomme « indices de contextualisation » (voir aussi Auer, 1992, de même que Gumperz, 1992b).…”

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“…+ nom + -là) -la variante marquée ayant un degré plus élevé de déicticité que la variante non marquée (cf. Langacker, 2002b, p. 34, Lyons, 1975. Les adverbes démonstratifs (par ex.…”

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Cornish¹

2010

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“…6 6 Deixis is here taken in a broad sense, as in Langacker (2002) or Davidse, Breban & Van linden (2008), dealing with everything that helps the addressee to identify what the speaker intends to refer to. This is typically done by elements like demonstratives, which either literally or linguistically point at a specific referent in the real world or in the world of discourse (see also Rijkhoff 2002: 173 – 4), but other means can be deployed as well: Davidse (2004) argues that quantification also can serve deictic purposes, and Davidse et al (2008) ascribe deictic force to spatial adjectives like opposite .…”

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Do we need the category of postdeterminer in the NP?¹

Velde

2009

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The structural make-up of the English NP is a matter of longstanding debate. In this paper, a closer look is taken at a notably intricate part of it, viz. the determiner, and more specifically where it fuzzily borders on the adjective. It will be argued that any attempt to resolve the indeterminacy issues associated with this boundary needs to take the diachrony of NP syntax as a vantage point. More specifically, it will be claimed that what are often conveniently but somewhat misleadingly called postdeterminers are in fact elements undergoing a diachronic transition from adjective slotfiller to determiner slotfiller. The postdeterminer slot is hence not a stable position. 1 I wish to thank Lobke Ghesquie`re, Joop van der Horst, the participants of the Sheffield workshop 'History and Structure in the English Noun Phrase', and the anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.2 PeripheralM stands for peripheral modifier, Det for determiner, Adj for adjective, and N for noun.

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Remarks on the English grounding systems

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Deictification: the development of secondary deictic meanings by adjectives in the English NP

Deictification: the development of secondary deictic meanings by adjectives in the English NP

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