Time and truth

The grammaticalization of resultatives and perfects within a theory of subjectification

Bibliographic Data

ID20382200
AuthorsUlrich Detges (University of Tübingen, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume24
Issue2
Pages345-377
Publication date2000-10-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueStudies in Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0378-4177 • E-ISSN: 1569-9978
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/sl.24.2.05det
OpenAlexW1967205135
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This paper is concerned with the “invisible hand” behind the polygenetic pathways of semantic change in grammaticalization. A comparison between Old English habban + Past Participle and Spanish tener + Past Participle brings to light specific discourse strategies which speakers use resultatives for. On the basis of this analysis, the paper re-examines the problem of explaining the shift from non-temporal to temporal meaning. It is argued that this shift is brought about by some very basic discourse strategies which are strong motives for repeated meaning change in the same direction

Epistemology · Grammaticalization · Linguistics · Participle · Semantic change · Verb · Computer Science · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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