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Kazuha Watanabe schrieb:
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<pre wrap="">Dear all,
I was wondering if anyone know any languages where a case marker is
lexicalized. Thank you so much.
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It depends on what you mean by 'lexicalization' (see Lehmann 2002). If
you are looking for a case marker that becomes part of an
(unanalyzable) lexical item, that is an everyday process by which cased
NPs (chiefly, in some local case) become adverbs, as in German <i>unten</i>
'below', which contains a Proto-Germanic locative case suffix <i>-n</i>.
If you are looking for a case marker that becomes a lexeme, i.e. a stem
with lexical meaning, that would be a case (not of lexicalization, but)
of degrammaticalization. There you may end up looking pretty long.<br>
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Best,<br>
Christian<br>
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Lehmann, Christian 2002, "New reflections on grammaticalization and
lexicalization". Wischer, Ilse & Diewald, Gabriele (eds.), <i>New
reflections on grammaticalization.</i> Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J.
Benjamins (TSL, 49); 1-18. [<a
href="cid:part1.07000407.05020006@Uni-Erfurt.De"></a><a
href="http://www.uni-erfurt.de/sprachwissenschaft/personal/lehmann/CL_Publ/New_reflections_on_grammaticalization_and_lexicalization.pdf">download</a>]
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