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grammaticalization
- From: BestATN@hidden.email
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:48:20 EDT
- Subject: grammaticalization
- To: katanda@yahoogroups.com
In a message dated 2002-09-24 10:32:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, sts@hidden.email writes:
when everything has been gramaticalised (i.e. can be transformed freely from one part of speech to another, from one argument structure to another and so on), than you can "calculate" with everything what you say,
stephan,
"grammaticalization" (or lexical semantics [hmm, where have we heard that phrase before?])
if i understand you correctly, this is one of the main reasons i like katanda so much.
steven