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Secondary grammaticalization and the English adverbial -ly suffix

2015

Author's version of an article in the journal: Language sciences. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2014.10.003 This paper discusses the secondary grammaticalization of the English adverbial -ly suffix and makes claims about the concept of secondary grammaticalization. Secondary grammaticalization is defined as the development of a new grammatical function in an already grammatical element. It is shown that the development of the -ly suffix involves a number of the processes which are associated with grammaticalization, e.g. paradigmatization, specialization, obligatorification, subjectification, layering and persistence. However, none of these proces…

Linguistics and Languageadverbializationzero adverbsGrammaticalizationLanguage and LinguisticsLinguistics-ly adverbsadjectivesEnglishVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020secondary grammaticalizationSociologySuffixAdverbialLanguage Sciences

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Innovative pragmatic codes in Ugandan English : a relevance-theoretic account

2013

Published version of an article in the journal: Argumentum. Also available from the publisher at: http://argumentum.unideb.hu/2013-anyagok/bisingoma.pdf Open access The paper investigates innovative pragmatic codes in Ugandan English within the conceptual framework of Relevance Theory (cf. Sperber & Wilson 1986, Wilson & Sperber 2004). Wilson & Sperber (2004) state that an utterance is optimally relevant if it is worth the hearer’s processing effort, and if it is compatible with the speaker’s linguistic abilities and preferences. The reasoning behind these tenets of Relevance Theory can be used to account for the pervasive use of many expressions peculiar to Ugandan English. For example, in…

Ugandan EnglishVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020modified expressionsrelevancepragmaticsdiscourse markerscognitive effectscalques

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The emergence of christianity within the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria : an exploration into its earlist roots and an investigation in to the in…

2007

Masteroppgave i engelsk- Universitetet i Agder 2007 This thesis commences with a description of Pre-Roman and Roman Britain, to identify the people who lived in Northumbria and their background. The description then progresses with an explanation about the withdrawal of the Romans, and the state of affairs they left behind, giving also a reason for the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. Once this is established, the scene which the Anglo-Saxons meet on their arrival is depicted, and their subsequent settlement recounted. The Anglo-Saxons were a warlike people, so their belligerent activities suppressing the Celts, and the campaigning between themselves and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms for supremacy, …

VDP::Humanities: 000::History: 070::Cultural history: 075VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020VDP::Humanities: 000::Cultural science: 060::Anglo American cultural science: 068EN501EN500

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