Title: Grammaticalization of the demonstrative THAT and its unidirectionality
Abstract: This paper uses the grammaticalization theory in cognitive linguistics to study the pathways and the unidirectionality of the grammaticalization of THAT. It is to study the relationship between linguistic forms and human’s cognition from the diachronic point of view. From the study, we can see that the demonstrative THAT is not derived from lexical items and it should be ranked among the basic vocabularies as the lexical words to be further grammaticalized into more grammatical words.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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