Grammaticalization and Reanalysis in African Languages |
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Abbreviations and Symbols | 9 |
GRAMMATICALIZATION | 15 |
Morphosyntactic processes | 28 |
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According adverbs Affixation African languages agreement appears applies aspect assume auxiliary become channel characteristic clause Cliticization complement completed Compounding confined constituent constructions copula demonstrative derived Desemanticization diachronic dialects distinction effect Erosion evolution example existing express extensions fact focus marker focus marking function future gender Givón grammatical grammaticalization hand head introduced involved leading lexical linguistic locative Loss lost main verb Mande marking means modifier morphemes morphological Musa negative nominal notes noun noun phrase object observations occur Once origin particular past perfect periphrasis person phrase position possessed postpositions preceding predicate focus preposition present processes progressive pronoun question reanalysis reference relational relative clause relevant responsible result retained rise sentence serial shift stage structure subordinate suffix suggest syntactic tend tense tense marker term focus tion undergoes unit usually various verbal vowel word order