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THE REANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICALIZED PREPOSITIONS IN MIDDLE ENGLISH
Author(s) -
Gelderen Elly
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9582.1996.tb00346.x
Subject(s) - inflection , middle english , linguistics , period (music) , grammaticalization , history , psychology , computer science , philosophy , aesthetics
. During the Middle English period, a number of prepositions grammaticalize. I examine three of these (namely for(to), to and on ) and argue that they come to be associatmwith verbal features as well as future, tense and aspect. As this happens, they change their structural positions and are reanalyzed as C(omplementizer), I(inflection) and ASP(ect) respectively. The latter categories are assumed by the language user as a response to the affiliation of the verbal features of for(to), to and on .