Title: On the Grammaticalization of Pragmatic Factors
Abstract: This article deals with the origin of the finite verb phrase in the unreal conditional sentence. First it makes a tentative criticism of some existing viewpoints on the problem; then through the metaphorical and metonymical models it makes a diachronic and dialectical analysis of the grammaticalization of the verb phrase concerned; and finally the author comes up with a hypothesis that the process of the formation and development of the syntactical structure of any human language is essentially a process of the grammaticalization of pragmatic factors.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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