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Publication details [#64674]

Detges, Ulrich. 2018. Strong pronouns in modern spoken French: Cliticization, constructionalization, grammaticalization? Linguistics 56 (5) : 1059–1098.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This study displays that in spoken French 1s moi, unlike 3s lui, has undergone both semantic bleaching and heavy prosodic erosion and has thus advanced along Lehmann’s parameters of grammaticalization.