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On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader
William J. Ashby
[Studies in Language Companion Series 226] 2023
► pp. 483–504

Remodelling the house

The grammaticalisation of Latin casa to French chez

| University of California, Santa Barbara
| University of California, Santa Barbara
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Grammaticalisation and unidirectionality
  • 2.Grammaticalisation and its processes in the case of “chez”
    • 2.1Phonological and lexical changes
    • 2.2Decategorialisation and syntactisation
      • 2.2.1“Casa” > “chez” as instance of cross-linguistic schema
      • 2.2.2The question of frequency
    • 2.3Generalisation and decategorialisation
      • 2.3.1Semantic generalisation: From spatial to social identity
    • 2.4Specialisation
      • 2.4.1Specialisation and the grammatical identity of chez
  • 3.Unidirectionality revisited: The noun “chez-soi” ‘’
    • 3.1Literary data vs colloquial data
    • 3.2Grammaticalisation reversal or lexicalisation?
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Editor’s/translator’s references
Published online: 2 March 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.226.c36
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