The unfinished cline of grammaticalisation? Reflections on the uses of OE under and its derivatives
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2008
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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A lexical category under functioned in Old English as a preposition, an adverb or a member of a
compound. This raises the questions: of whether and, if so, to what extent did these different uses
undergo a process of grammaticalisation? On the basis of the observations of language material I
assume that the cline of changes has never reached a final stage and either the process has been
interrupted or is still in the making, which requires a fundamental rethink of the problem.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 44 (2008), pp. 53-61