Chapter 6

Question 1

Grammaticalisation

Answer 1

the process by which new grammatical morphemes (grams) come into being

Question 2

grammatical morphemes vs Lexical morphemes

Answer 2

Lexical Morphemes are open class, grammatical morphemes are closed class

Question 3

example of gramms

Answer 3

Affixe, auxiliaires, articles, pronouns, preposition and postpositions

Question 4

how grams are restricted

Answer 4

grammatical morphemes are restricted by where they can occur. they occur in particular constraints.

Question 5

how “will”changed to become future aux

Answer 5

1. in phonetic form. 2. morphosyntactic properties. 3. meaning or function
   (this changes happen altogether gradually in the process of grammaticalisation)

Question 6

what is the verb from which “will” produced?

Answer 6

“WILLAN”= WILL(want) + AN (infinitive suffix)

Question 7

how was will an used?

Answer 7

1. with NP a direct object. 2. with Clause coming with that 3. with infinitive complement

Question 8

the story of WILL. OE

Answer 8

Old English: Will used with NP, Clause with that and infinitives. the meaning was mostly want. the other meanings was: Willingness, sometimes expressing the future. Singular and Plural was distinguished and 2sg was wilt.

Question 9

Will in ME

Answer 9

ME: the use of will with infinitives increased. the use of will with np objects decreased. with the infinitive complement the meaning was willingness and intention. with FSG the meaning was promise or resolution. the plural was lost and the final vowel deleted in variations. using will for prediction which is the hallmark of future tense was not common in ME and only happened once.

Question 10

Early Modern English

Answer 10

the contrsction started to happen. (contraction was less common for she and he). the contraction means phonological reduction. frequency increased. mostly use for intention, promise and willingness. the use for prediction also increased.

Question 11

Properties of Aux

Answer 11

1. inversion with the subject forming question 2.negative not follows them 3. their infinitive is without to. 4. they don’t have 3sg suffix s.

Question 12

the differences between normal verbs and Aux

Answer 12

main verbs in OE and ME had the first three properties. but they lost their feature. Auxiliaries are highly fixed because they are frequent. and undergone grammaticaization

Question 13

Case of Have

Answer 13

when a lexical item becomes a suffix:
1. the stem was before Habere
2. H was lost in some cases
3. reduction happened and b is lost
4. it attached to the infinitive

Question 14

what happens after go and have (another form of future)

Answer 14

subject plus going to Verb
shows intention
reduction happens: gonna
with I it reduces further: Imma get me a beer.

Question 15

Path of Grammaticalisation

Answer 15

1:discourse: loosely connected sequences of words
2. syntax: constraints with moe fixed structures and meanings
3. Morphology: affixed morphemes appear.
from Auxilary to Suffix

Question 16

Example of Auxiliary to suffixN

Answer 16

Romanve Future
Cantar ha : Cantara

Question 17

What aspects of words are changed during grammaticalisation

Answer 17

Phonetic forms- grammatical Behaviour - meaning

Question 18

Specialisation Example

Answer 18

Ne Pas in French
Development of English Perfect

Question 19

Story of Ne Pas

Answer 19

1. Ne was old Latin Negation used in OF, before verb
2. in OF a constraint arose in which Ne was supplemented by a noun meaning the least quantity of something
3. this constraint survived during Modern French as the main form of Negation, where pas (step) happens after the Verb
   (pas was not the only noun used in French for this purpose. there were other nouns too rom which only Pas and Point exist now. Pas is neutral negation. the use of only ne is not happening now in French)
4. Pas lost its former meaning.
5. Now Ne is usually omitted and only pas happens before verb

Question 20

the story of Perfect

Answer 20

1. OE from grammaticalised from possessive constraints , with transitive verbs, with resultative meaning
2. this constraint gave rise to the use of ppl which is our perfect, with transitive verbs
3. with intransitive verbs and other verbs indicating change of state, the verb be used instead of have. in other languages we still have this situation.
4. in English, the use of be is gone now and have survived. be is only used with go.

Question 21

Decategorialization

Answer 21

(Loss of Lexical Class during grammaticalization)
when a N or V becomes fixed in gramatticalizing constraint, it looses aspects of its meaning and becomes disconnected to the same N or V used in other contexts. as it becomes more fixed in a grammaticalisation constraint, it looses its morphosyntactic properties. the loss of morphosyntactic features indicating its lexical class is called DECATEGORIALIZATION.

Question 22

How words change in decategorialization?

Answer 22

V becomes Aux
N becomes Prep

Question 23

Example of Can

Answer 23

Decategorialization: Main V becomes Aux
it was cunnan before

Question 24

What Properties Cunnan lost?

Answer 24

1. the ability to take NP as direct object
2. the loss of infinitive form (in Middle English there are instances, now in some dialects happen, it is not semantic deficiency because WILL is used with BE ABLE TO)
3. loss of inflection

Question 25

inflection in Cunnan

Answer 25

Cunnan was a V that did not have 3SG inflection. shows that even in OE, these Vs have some specific characteristics. past form of CAN is etymologically COULD

Question 26

While

Answer 26

Decategorialization WHILE was a N, meaning a period of time. it is noun in some fixed expression in PDE : a long while in PDE, when WHILE is used to introduce a clause, it is not a N. it can not take articles, a demonstrative or an adjective. it is also not in the N position (S or O, or O of P)

Question 27

Differences between Can, While and Have

Answer 27

CAN as a main V is not being used WHILE is rarely used in fixed expressions garamatticalized HAVE in perfect constraint, but the lexical possessive HAVE is clearly being used in its full form.

Question 28

explain grammaticalization of Have

Answer 28

Perfect HAVE: behaves like aux: contracts with NOT and SUB

Question 29

explain decategorilization as Reanalysis

Answer 29

item from one category joined another category, it is a grammaticalization which reanalysis lexical item as a grammatical item(?)

Question 30

what is the process of fixing position

Answer 30

morphosyntactic change accompanies grammaticalization. a W which occured in different positions is being fixed.

Question 31

example of fixing position

Answer 31

a temporal adverbia becomes a future gram. by and by which was an adverbial (baimbai) at the beginning of a sentence is moved to a position closer to V because its semantic properties are similar to the V. stabilised closer to the V.