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Grammaticalization Pathways by Walter Bisang by Anahí Lopez Favilli is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document summarizes two examples of grammaticalization processes: 1) The development of the compound past/present perfect in Romance languages from Latin through four stages: resultative meaning, past event with present relevance, past events with relevance for the present (aorist shift), and perfective aspect. 2) The development of object marking in Persian from the postposition "ra@diy" in Old Persian to the suffix "-rā" in Modern Persian, marking definiteness and accusative case. The change occurr
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- Anahí Lopez Favilli
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- EN