Malte Rosemeyer
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The test of time: experimentally recreating the reanalysis of FINISH as a recent past marker Open
In grammaticalization studies, reanalysis is understood as the assignment of new meaning to formally unchanged elements, supported by bridging contexts compatible with the old and the reanalyzed meaning. The source determination hypothesis…
The test of time: experimentally recreating the reanalysis of FINISH as a recent past marker Open
In grammaticalization studies, reanalysis is understood as the assignment of new meaning to formally unchanged elements, supported by bridging contexts compatible with the old and the reanalyzed meaning. The source determination hypothesis…
Dialogical and monological functions of the discourse marker <i>bueno</i> in spoken and written Spanish Open
The Spanish discourse marker bueno has multiple functions ranging from the expression of (dis)agreement to topic management. The present paper sets out to explore what happens when bueno starts to be used in written monological contexts. W…
Data-driven identification of situated meanings in corpus data using Latent Class Analysis Open
Identifying the meanings of grammatical elements in context is a major challenge for corpus-linguistic studies of grammatical variation. This study proposes a novel solution to this problem. I describe the situated meanings of grammatical …
Syntactic priming and individual preferences Open
This paper analyses the relation between syntactic priming/persistence and individual preferences in the variation between the two forms of the Spanish past subjunctive ( -ra vs -se ). The analysis finds that the probability of repetition …
French and Spanish<i>wh</i>-interrogatives with and without<i>wh</i> Open
This article describes the usage of partial interrogatives without wh such as And you went…? in French and Spanish, and analyses the variation between such in-situ -Ø and in-situ-wh -interrogatives such as And you went where? On the basis …
Syntactic alternations and socio-stylistic constraints: the case of asyndetic complementation in the history of Spanish Open
This paper analyses the alternation between complement clauses with and without complementizer (syndetic and asyndetic), in historical Spanish (15th–18th century). While previous studies have shown that this syntactic alternation was regul…
How sentence type influences the interpretation of Spanish future constructions Open
It is well known that Spanish futurizing morphology is frequently used not to express futurity, but instead to formulate a hypothesis, i.e. express epistemic modality. Although this is possible with both synthetic or periphrastic future ma…
Asyndetic complementation and referential integration in Spanish Open
This paper examines a distinctive syntactic feature of (pre)classical Spanish: asyndetic complementation (without complementizer que ‘that’). While many authors regard this construction as a stylistic variant which eventually declined (i.a…
<i>À nouveau</i>and<i>de nouveau</i>in spoken and written French Open
This paper analyzes the alternation between the near-synonymous French adverbials à nouveau and de nouveau ‘again’, which has received scarce attention in the literature. While previous descriptions assume that both adverbials are used to …
Why don’t grammaticalization pathways always recur? Open
Many grammaticalization pathways recur across languages. A prominent explanation for this is that the properties of lexical items determine their developmental pathways. However, it is unclear why these pathways do not always occur. In thi…
The influence of sentence type on the interpretation of Spanish future constructions Open
This paper explores the relationship between futurizing morphology and sentence type on the basis of a quantitative analysis of about n=6,000 tokens of synthetic and periphrastic ‘future’ constructions in conversations in Spanish from Madr…
On cause and correlation in language change Open
Studies of language change frequently wrestle with the problem of cause and correlation. It is comparatively simple to observe a correlation between historical trends. However, it is much more difficult to demonstrate that the changes in t…
Socio-stylistic aspects of syntactic variation: the case of Spanish asyndetic complementation between the 15th and the 18th century Open
This quantitative corpus study investigates the relation between Spanish complementizerless clauses and sociostylistic variables, such as discourse traditions, document type, register and addressee's social status.
Brazilian Portuguese <i>in-situ wh</i>-interrogatives between rhetoric and change Open
Previous studies of the historical development of partial interrogatives have postulated a change from contexts in which the proposition of the interrogative has been explicitly mentioned in the previous discourse, to contexts in which the…
Actual and apparent change in Brazilian Portuguese <i>wh</i>-interrogatives Open
Previous studies on the diachrony of wh -interrogation in Brazilian Portuguese have observed a replacement process of ex-situ- wh interrogatives by cleft- wh and in-situ- wh interrogatives in the twentieth century. The present study analyz…
Inferences in Interaction and Language Change Open
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Refunctionalization and Usage Frequency: An Exploratory Questionnaire Study Open
This paper explores the relationship between refunctionalization and usage frequency. In particular, it argues that (a) refunctionalization is more likely for low-frequency construction than high-frequency constructions, and that (b) high-…
When “Questions“ are not Questions. Inferences and Conventionalization in Spanish But-Prefaced Partial Interrogatives Open
The present paper analyzes the discourse-pragmatic function of introducing Spanish qué ‘what’- interrogatives with the concessive connective pero ‘but’. In some contexts, a pero-preface contributes to the interpretation of the interrogativ…
The road to auxiliariness revisited Open
Auxiliary verbs are known to grammaticalize from lexical verbs, but how do lexical verbs acquire verbal complements to begin with? This article provides an account of the semantic and pragmatic basis of grammaticalization of the Spanish an…
Entrenchment and persistence in language change: the Spanish past subjunctive Open
In this paper, we demonstrate that, like frequency, morphosyntactic persistence can have a conserving effect on language change. To substantiate this claim, we analyze the alternation between the Spanish past subjunctive forms ending in –r…
A match made in heaven: Using parallel corpora and multinomial logistic regression to analyze the expression of possession in Old Spanish Open
This study applies multinomial regression analysis to a parallel corpus of Spanish medieval translations of the Bible in order to study the different factors that condition variation in the expression of possession in Old Spanish. Our meth…
The development of iterative verbal periphrases in Romance Open
This paper compares the diachronic development of tornar ( e )+ a +infinitive (henceforth abbreviated RETURN+INF) constructions in Spanish, Catalan, and Italian, a topic that especially for Catalan and Italian has not received much attenti…