Pragmaticalization (defined) as grammaticalization of discourse functions

Grammaticalization as Optimization

According to the neogrammarians and de Saussure, all linguistic change is either sound change, analogy, or borrowing.1 Meillet (1912) identified a class of changes that don’t fit into any of these three categories. Like analogical changes, they are endogenous innovations directly affecting morphology and syntax, but unlike analogical changes, they are not based on any pre-existing patterns in t...

Imperatives, Discourse Markers, and Grammaticalization É vida, olha...: Imperatives as Discourse Markers and Grammaticalization Paths in Romance A diachronic corpus study

In this paper, we investigate the evolution from imperatives to discourse markers in Romance, with a corpus-based approach. We focus on the case of items coming from verbs meaning “to look”, in a semasiological perspective: Spanish and Catalan mira, Portuguese olha, Italian guarda, French regarde, Romanian uite. We show that they all share many uses, among which turn-taking, introduction of rep...

Temporal Relations in Learner Varieties: Grammaticalization and Discourse Construction

Works on temporality in the field of language acquisition have progressed considerably over the past few years, moving on from descriptions of the linguistic structure of learner varieties towards a more general concern for their dynamic nature, i.e. their developmental structure and factors relating to their restructuring. As far as the study of temporality is concerned, it has not only been a...

The Role of the Development of Discourse Markers in a Theory of Grammaticalization

On difference sequence spaces defined by Orlicz functions without convexity

In this paper, we first define spaces of single difference sequences defined by a sequence of Orlicz functions without convexity and investigate their properties. Then we extend this idea to spaces of double sequences and present a new matrix theoretic approach construction of such double sequence spaces.