Grammaticalization, lexicalization, and semantic universals (the case of the primitive semitic prepositions)

• Autores: Gregorio del Olmo Lete
• Localización: Aula Orientalis: Revista de estudios del Próximo Oriente Antiguo, ISSN 0212-5730, Vol. 29, Nº. 1, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Proceedings of the III Symposium on Comparative Semitics), págs. 27-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The system of prepositions signifies the appearance of secondary analytical system in an inflectional agglutinative language. It is normally divided in two diachronic levels: primary and secondary. Both levels have a grammaticalized nominal origin. The primary level goes back, however, to similar lexical elements and semantic universals in all the semitic languages and it is even possible to find it in the Indo-European family. In this paper the implied grammaticalization process is analyzed