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What Causes Adverbial Infinitives to Spread? Evidence from Romance
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Schulte, K. – Language Sciences, 2007
It is cross-linguistically common for languages to undergo a diachronic increase in the range of adverbial notions that can be expressed by means of infinitival constructions, and the Romance languages are a good example of this process. Examining the development of adverbial "prepositional infinitive" constructions in Spanish, Portuguese and…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Romance Languages, Spanish
Proto-Languages in Prehistory: Reality and Reconstruction.
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Pulgram, Ernst – Language Sciences, 1995
The study discusses the position of the protolanguage in the hierarchy formed by idiolect, dialect, and diasystem. The article emphasizes that linguistic study contains a great many diachronic events and hypothesized synchronic features that are implausible, yet possible. (30 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects