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This article investigates the synchronic status and diachronic origin of an incorporation-like construction in Japhug, a polysynthetic Sino-Tibetan language of Eastern Tibet. This construction constitutes the intermediate stage on a path of development from denominal derivation to incorporation, the opposite of the usual path of development from incorporation to denominal derivation.Additionally,...
This paper deals with the phenomenon of German complement-taking mental predicates (CTMPs) evolving into particles. The goal is twofold: on the one hand, to get a better view of the situation in present-day German on the basis of a systematic corpus analysis, and on the other hand to discuss the status of the resulting forms. In both cases, the starting point is the analysis of Imo (2006a, 2009a),...
This paper explores similarities and differences among ever words in English (ever), German (je) and Dutch (ooit) both synchronically and diachronically. The always readings clearly attested for all three elements throughout the pre-modern periods of their languages seem to have involved marking them in different ways for PAST and FUTURE ( always was v. always will be ) in at...
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