Paradigms as triggers of semantic change: Demonstrative adverbs in Catalan and Spanish

This paper sets out to analyse the development of demonstrative adverbs of place in Catalan and Spanish. The main questions dealt with in this study are the following: (i) why two-term and three-term deictic systems often display a certain lack of stability so that diachronically two-term systems so...

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Main Author: Manuel Pérez Saldanya
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015-12-01
Series:Catalan Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/165