Essays about: "degrammaticalization"

Found 1 essay containing the word degrammaticalization.

  1. 1. (A)rise and (a)wake : An investigation of two verb pairs

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Alexander Lakaw; [2008]
    Keywords : corpus linguistics; degrammaticalization; grammaticalization; language change; morphology; prefixation; synonymy; semantic prosody;

    Abstract : In this corpus-based study, the two verb pairs arise and rise and awake and wake are investigated. The paper focuses on seven research questions that are related to the meanings of the verbs in question, the semantic specialisations of those verbs, and the semantic relation of the specific verb pair constituents. READ MORE