Are verbal person markers primarily shaped by cyclic grammaticalization? Recent work by Seržant gives a new answer
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28 février 2023
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Martin Haspelmath, « Are verbal person markers primarily shaped by cyclic grammaticalization? Recent work by Seržant gives a new answer », Diversity Linguistics Comment, ID : 10.58079/nsx3
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Almost as well-known as Jespersen’s Cycle is “Givón’s Cycle”, the change from independent personal pronoun to grammatical person marker (= person index) to zero, with subsequent renewal: Givon’s Cycle (so dubbed by Seržant 2021): independent personal pronoun subject index zero [renewal...] Givón’s (1976) article is one of the most famous early papers of the modern grammaticalization literature, and the change also figures prominently in van Gelderen’s (2011) book on cyclic changes. The de...