Examples of grammaticalization

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To put it differently, the notion of grammaticalization was often not defined in a way that made a clear differentiation from lexicalization possible.
That grammaticalization is not restricted to spoken languages comes as no surprise.
Nonetheless, grammaticalization is also often reflected synchronically in that the various stages on the grammaticalization path can co-exist synchronically, leading to polysemy or homophony.
Methodologically, these results were enabled by adopting a grammaticalization perspective on defining the envelope of variation.
It is a work that belongs in any good research library and in the collection of researchers of grammaticalization or historical linguistics generally.
In other words, there may not be such a thing as an independent process of grammaticalization.
The relevance of phonological variation to the issue of grammaticalization would have deserved more attention.
It is also said that it is cyclic, meaning that the return to the original state is effected by a different grammaticalization process.
The author relates these differences via a process of grammaticalization.
Furthermore, our analysis regards the development of each other as a case of simultaneous lexicalization and grammaticalization.
What makes grammaticalization: a look from its fringes and its components.
Is it delexicalization or some other type of grammaticalization phenomenon?
This study provides evidence for the syntax leading the grammaticalization process, rather than the semantics, although the two proceed largely in parallel.
These aspects have been emphasized in some of the most influential recent works on grammaticalization.
Distance, or rather the lack of it, may be a contributing factor to this grammaticalization process.
Syntactic construction thus functions as a strong constraint on meaning changes in grammaticalization, while semantic selection constrains the development of novel syntactic environments.
Let us now look at whether the verb grammaticalization process seems to be affected by the verb lexicon.
Perhaps this non-generality can contribute to insights on the meaning of fillers during the early grammaticalization process.

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