This contribution presents a comparison of the French prepositional expressions en voie de on the one hand and en route / en chemin (pour) on the other. We aim to show that être en route and être en chemin can be used as complex predicates resulting from a lexicalisation process, whereas être en… read more
In this article we propose that the notion of grammaticalization as a gradual process can be extended to language typology. Within the same language family, grammaticalization phenomena can be ongoing in one language and have reached a stage further down the cline in another language. This entails… read more
Cuyckens, Hubert, Walter De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans 2004 IntroductionAdpositions of Movement, Cuyckens, Hubert, Walter De Mulder and Tanja Mortelmans (eds.), p. | Miscellaneous
Summary The aim of this article is to study the relationship between certain adverbs, prepositions, prefixes and conjunctions of subordination in French. A distinction is made between two classes of morphemes. The first one includes prefixes and ‘governed’ prepositions (which introduce arguments of… read more