Analogy-driven change: the emergence and development of mirativeend upconstructions in American English
| Autor: | Mario Serrano-Losada |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language History 05 social sciences American English Analogy Mirative Variety (linguistics) Grammaticalization Language and Linguistics Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Development (topology) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Element (criminal law) 0305 other medical science Mechanism (sociology) |
| Zdroj: | English Language and Linguistics. 24:97-121 |
| ISSN: | 1469-4379 1360-6743 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1360674318000266 |
| Popis: | This article explores the diachronic development of mirativeend upin American English, which emerged in the late nineteenth century and which seems to be, at present, in the process of becoming a parenthetical element. The rise of the various mirativeend upconstructions is argued to be the result of both pragmatic enrichment and paradigmatic analogy, motivated by a series of semantically and formally related expressions, most prominently by mirativeturn out. Moreover, the article delves into the process of cooptation to explain the emergence of parenthetical instances in the present-day language. Cooptation is understood as an intrinsically analogical-driven mechanism when it entails the eventual grammaticalization of formulaic parenthetical constructions. Data for the present study were taken from a variety of diachronic and synchronic sources, which include COHA, COCA and NOW, among others. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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