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Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleThe Grammaticalization of the Spanish Complement-taking Verb without a ComplementizerJiyoung YoonThis study examines authentic data samples taken from the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA) in order to uncover any semantic trends that can be commonly observed in verbs taking a sentential complement without the complementizer que in Spanish. In doing so, special attention is given to the grammaticalization process that can account for epistemic fragments in which the … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 12 Sep 2015 · 8,770 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsItems and Generalizations: Evidence from Decir within the Family of Subjective-Transitive Constructions in SpanishFrancisco Gonzálvez-GarcíaThis paper explores the existence of a continuum between regular, productive, conventional configurations and fixed, idiosyncratic and novel configurations within the full gamut of instances of secondary predication with decir ('say') and verba dicendi in present-day Spanish. Drawing on Cognitive Construction Grammar, it is argued that instances of the secondary predication with these verbs can be aptly regarded as forming … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 28 Jul 2015 · 8,090 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsA Preliminary Investigation of the Adversity Reading in Archaic WEI PassivesJun-Yu Zhang, Pei-Jung KuoProblem statement: It is well-known that modern Chinese imposes such a requirement on the subject in the BEI passive, but in fact it does not hold tightly in Modern Chinese. Only 50-75% of passives have the adversity reading on the subject. Approach: One approach to explain this phenomenon is to adopt the view of grammaticalization and trace the semantic change … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 8, Issue 3 · 8 Aug 2012 · 7,594 accessesView PDF Cite