Article published in:
The Rise and Development of Evidential and Epistemic MarkersEdited by Silvio Cruschina and Eva-Maria Remberger
[Journal of Historical Linguistics 7:1/2] 2017
► pp. 190–212
The grammaticalization of Dutch klinken
Marjolein Poortvliet | University of Oxford
This article demonstrates the diachronic development of present-day Dutch klinken as an evidential copular verb meaning ‘to seem, based on (auditory) evidence’ from the Middle Dutch intransitive verb klinken meaning ‘to give off a clear sound’. I identify four semantic stages in the history of klinken, which are divided by processes of semantic bleaching (14th–16th century, 16th–17th century) and subjectification and copularization (during the 16th century). I claim that the process of copularization is the trigger of both the evidential meaning and the subjective interpretation that copular constructions with klinken receive. Furthermore, I show that, unlike the development of eruitzien ‘look’ and voelen ‘feel’ from cognitive perception verbs, klinken has developed much like the Dutch copular verbs schijnen ‘seem’ and blijken ‘turn out’: from an intransitive verb with a sensory-related meaning.
Keywords: grammaticalization, perception verbs, evidentiality, subjectification, copularization
Published online: 23 November 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.7.1-2.08poo
https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.7.1-2.08poo
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