Cognate objects of weather verbs in African languages of South Africa – from synchronic variation to a grammaticalization path

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dc.contributor.authorAndrason, Alexanderen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorVisser, Mariannaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-15T13:57:51Z
dc.date.available2018-02-15T13:57:51Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionCITATION: Andrason, A. & Visser, M. 2017. Cognate objects of weather verbs in African languages of South Africa – from synchronic variation to a grammaticalization path. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 48:151-160 doi:10.5774/48-0-287.
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://spil.journals.ac.za
dc.description.abstractThe authors argue that the synchronic variation of cognate objects of weather verbs exhibited in six African languages of South Africa (Sepedi, Sesotho, Tshivenda, isiXhosa, Xitsonga, and isiZulu) has a diachronic explanation, and may be represented as a grammaticalization path. This path gradually leads from prototypical cognate objects that disallow object agreement (pronominalization) and promotion to subjects in passive constructions to prototypical objects where both agreement (pronominalization) and promotion are grammatical. This provides further support for the modelling of cognate objects, adjuncts and arguments in terms of a continuum and for a gradient view of syntactic categories, in general.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/287
dc.description.versionPublisher’s version
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.citationAndrason, A. & Visser, M. 2017. Cognate objects of weather verbs in African languages of South Africa – from synchronic variation to a grammaticalization path. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 48:151-160 doi:10.5774/48-0-287
dc.identifier.issn2223-9936 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1027-3417 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.5774/48-0-287
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/103131
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherStellenbosch University, Department of Linguistics
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dc.subjectWeather verbs -- African languages -- Grammar, comparative -- South Africa -- Grammaticalizationen_ZA
dc.subjectGrammar, comparative -- Grammatical categoriesen_ZA
dc.titleCognate objects of weather verbs in African languages of South Africa – from synchronic variation to a grammaticalization pathen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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