From Latin QUO(D) VELLES to Romagnol Cvël: A Case of Degrammaticalisation from a Free‐choice Indefinite to the Noun 'Thing'.
Degrammaticalisation is an oft‐dismissed category of language change. In this paper evidence is provided for its existence, its triggers, and its conditions. This case study details the development of an understudied Old Italo‐Romance indefinite, covelle, a polarity‐sensitive item roughly translatin...
| Publicado en: | Transactions of the Philological Society Vol. 122; no. 1; pp. 119 - 151 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2024
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