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unidirectionality hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Historical linguistics

claim that grammaticalization moves from lexical toward grammatical status and rarely if ever runs in reverse.

In historical linguistics, unidirectionality hypothesis refers to claim that grammaticalization moves from lexical toward grammatical status and rarely if ever runs in reverse. This meaning comes from Haspelmath (1999) in Linguistics.[1]

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grammaticalization1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct hypothesis2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs status2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Haspelmath, M. (1999). Why is grammaticalization irreversible? Linguistics, 37(6). https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.37.6.1043

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