Language Science Press eBooks· 2015
Thoughts on grammaticalization
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The concept of grammaticalization, where lexemes evolve into grammatical formatives, was expounded by Condillac in 1746, who proposed personal verb endings derived from pronouns and tense from temporal adverbs.
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Key points
- Grammaticalization describes the evolution of lexemes into grammatical formatives.
- Antoine de Condillac (1746) proposed personal verb endings derive from pronouns.
- Condillac also suggested verb tenses originate from temporal adverbs.
- John Horne Tooke claimed prepositions derive from nouns or verbs.
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Abstract
As far as I can see, it was Antoine We will return to him in a moment. The concept itself, however, and the ideas behind it, are considerably older. The idea that grammatical formatives evolve from lexemes, that affixes come from free forms, was already expounded by the French philosopher tienne Bonnot de Condillac. In his work Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746), he explained the personal endings of the verb through agglutination of personal pronouns and maintained that verbal tense came from the coalescence of a temporal adverb with the stem. Again, John Horne Tooke, in his etymological work or the diversions of Purley (vol. I: 1786, vol. II: 1805), claimed that prepositions derive from nouns or verbs. 1 We shall see in Chapter 1 that all such processes do, in fact, occur, though not necessarily in the specific cases which these authors had in mind.
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