Asynchronous grammaticalization
Published in Languages in Contrast • Apr 3, 2015
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Authors:,
Torsten Leuschner
Daan Van den Nest
Abstract
The present paper contrasts verb-first (V1-) conditionals in written usage in present-day English and German. Based on the hypothesis that V1-protases originated in independent interrogatives and then grammaticalized as conditional subordinate clauses in an asynchronous fashion in both languages, we...
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