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Publication details [#54863]

Larrivée, Pierre. 2011. The role of pragmatics in grammatical change: The case of French preverbal non. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (7) : 1987–1996.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammar1 | historical linguistics | markedness | paradigm vs. syntagm | pragmatics

Language as a subject

French, Middle | French, Old

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study provides empirical evidence, confirming the supposed role of pragmatics in the Jespersen cycle, and consequently the general view of pragmatics as helping alternative candidates that may or may not attain default status in grammatical paradigm evolution.