Movement triggers and the etiology of grammaticalization: the case of italian postposition fa

This work deals with the Italian particle fa ``ago'', which together with expressions of time measure localizes an event in a certain point preceding the moment of elocution. The aim is to show how the particle developed from Old Italian to present, assuming that fa was originally the 3rd...

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Published in:Sintagma
Main Author: Ludovico Franco
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat de LLeida 2012-12-01
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Online Access:http://www.sintagma-online.udl.cat/imatges/pdf/2012e.pdf