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| http://hdl.handle.net/2268/110366 | |||
| On the pragmatics of subjectification. The emergence and grammaticalization of a verb-less Allative Future in Ancient Egyptian | |
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Grossman, Eitan  [Hebrew University of Jerusalem > > > >] | |
| Polis, Stéphane [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences de l'antiquité > Egyptologie >] | |
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| Acta Linguistica Hafniensia : International Journal of Linguistics | |
| Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen | |
| 48 p. | |
| International | |
| 0374-0463 | |
| Copenhagen | |
| Denmark | |
| [en] Grammaticalization ; Subjectification ; Future ; Ancient Egyptian | |
| [en] In this paper, we argue that an expanded conception of the distinction between speaker-oriented and subject-oriented inferences is crucial for understanding the motivations and mechanisms of semantic change in grammaticalization and subjectivation, on the one hand, and for clarifying the links between semantic change and reductive formal changes. Speaker-oriented inferences have significant consequences, leading to the relaxation of selectional restrictions on a construction. In turn, the relaxation of selectional restrictions can create conditions in which the type- and token-frequency of a construction can rise considerably. Furthermore, changes in the selectional restrictions on a construction can themselves catalyze semantic change by coercing listeners into new form-function pairings. This framework is applied to the grammaticalization of allative futures, a typological comparative concept developed in order to compare structurally diverse future tenses. A small typological study allows us to reconsider some problematic pathways of grammaticalization and to suggest some alternative analyses. Following the typological discussion, a detailed diachronic case study of a verbless allative future in Ancient Egyptian is presented. | |
| Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (Communauté française de Belgique) - F.R.S.-FNRS | |
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| http://hdl.handle.net/2268/110366 |
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