Grammaticalization: The history of grammaticalization

TL;DR: Carvalho et al. as mentioned in this paper surveyed 205 native speakers of Spanish via a 24-item contextualized preference task and found that participants chose their preferred intensifier or indicated that both were acceptable.

TL;DR: In this article , análise de nossa amostra foi possível encontrar uma frequência regular de uso do item mesmo a encabeçar a estruturação da ideia de concessão, em diferentes construções de caráter mais gramatical.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the notion of non-truth-conditional meaning of Propositional Content, and present anaphora as an indicator of the Indeterminacy of Sense.

TL;DR: This chapter argues that lexicology must include both the study of individual words and their structure and of the overall structure of the vocabulary as a whole, and that it cannot describe either from a purely formal point of view, without considering semantic aspects and relations.

TL;DR: This book discusses sound change, word order change and grammaticalisation: language change and general laws, and three views of sound change are presented.

TL;DR: For instance, the non-linguist who has conscientiously tried to keep abreast of developments in linguistic theory may well be ready to give up. as mentioned in this paper argues that transformational grammarians may seem to have developed increasingly narrow interests and, moreover, to have become embroiled in the muddy business of securing their own positions, digging themselves in on a narrow front, that whether they are involved in civil war or are continuing to extend the frontiers of linguistic knowledge is often very unclear-even to themselves.