
'COME' and 'GO' off the Beaten Grammaticalization Path
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This edition brings together some lesser known grammaticalization paths travelled by 'come' and 'go' in familiar and less familiar languages. No single book volume has been dedicated to the topic of grammatical targets different from tense and aspect so far. This study will increase our insight in grammaticalization processes in general as they force us to rethink certain aspects of grammaticalization.
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2 - Contributors [Seite 9]
3 - Introduction [Seite 11]
4 - Passives [Seite 29]
4.1 - Venire ('come') as a passive auxiliary in Italian [Seite 31]
4.2 - Passive in motion: the Early Italian auxiliary andare ('to go') [Seite 55]
4.3 - The Multiple Grammaticalization of Romanian veni 'come'. Focusing on the Passive Construction [Seite 79]
5 - Mood and modality [Seite 111]
5.1 - When come and go go necessive [Seite 113]
5.2 - Go and come as sources of directive constructions [Seite 175]
6 - Discourse functions [Seite 195]
6.1 - The Spanish auxiliary ir 'to go': from resultative motion verb to focus marker [Seite 197]
6.2 - On the grammaticalization of venga 'come' as a discourse marker in Peninsular Spanish [Seite 229]
6.3 - The grammaticalization of 'go' as an intensifier in Supyire [Seite 259]
6.4 - Motion verbs in Shangaci: lexical semantics and discourse functions [Seite 291]
7 - Conclusion [Seite 329]
7.1 - How far have we come and where do we go from here? Discussion and directions for further research [Seite 331]
8 - Subject index [Seite 347]
9 - Language index [Seite 351]
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