In this paper, I will provide a possible syntactic characterization of (a subset) of so-called degrammaticalization processes, based on the case of the diachronic evolution of presso/pressi (near/at, in) in Italian. Moreover, with an empirical study on the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) corpus, I will support Svenonius's idea of Axial Part as an independent category in the lexicon (and not a mere spatial subset of relational nouns), providing a new kind of evidence i.e. of the diachronic type, to this claim.

Axial Parts, Phi-Features and Degrammaticalization: The Case of Italian Presso/Pressi in Diachrony / Franco, Ludovico. - In: TRANSACTIONS OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY. - ISSN 0079-1636. - ELETTRONICO. - 114:(2016), pp. 149-170. [10.1111/1467-968X.12067]

Axial Parts, Phi-Features and Degrammaticalization: The Case of Italian Presso/Pressi in Diachrony

FRANCO, LUDOVICO
2016

Abstract

In this paper, I will provide a possible syntactic characterization of (a subset) of so-called degrammaticalization processes, based on the case of the diachronic evolution of presso/pressi (near/at, in) in Italian. Moreover, with an empirical study on the Opera del Vocabolario Italiano (OVI) corpus, I will support Svenonius's idea of Axial Part as an independent category in the lexicon (and not a mere spatial subset of relational nouns), providing a new kind of evidence i.e. of the diachronic type, to this claim.
2016
114
149
170
Franco, Ludovico
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