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Peer reviewedRomaine, Suzanne – Language, 1999
Discusses grammaticalization of "laik" in Tok Pisin, meaning "want/like/desire" (from English "like") and "klostu," meaning "near" (from English "close to") as markers of proximative. Shows although "klostu" was more generally a feature of Pacific Pidgin English and began to…
Descriptors: Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Peer reviewedBaker, C. L. – Language, 1995
Locally free reflexives in British English are analyzed as intensified nonnominative pronouns, subject to a contrastiveness requirement and a requirement that the character referred to be more central than other characters in the set. The extent to which discourse prominence marking can mimic locality marking may explain conversions of intensives…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages)
