Esther Le Mair

List of John Benjamins publications for which Esther Le Mair plays a role.

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Johnson, Cynthia A., Peter Alexander Kerkhof, Leonid Kulikov, Esther Le Mair and Jóhanna Barðdal 2019 Argument structure, conceptual metaphor and semantic change: How to succeed in Indo-European without really trying Diachronica 36:4, pp. 463–508 | Article
In contrast to grammaticalization studies of lexical verbs changing into auxiliaries, the realm of semantic changes associated with lexical verbs is an understudied area of historical semantics. We concentrate on the emergence of verbs of success from more semantically concrete verbs, uncovering… read more