Arabic-L:LING:grammaticalization

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Date: 12 Nov 2010
From: Dan Parvaz <dparvaz at gmail.com>
Subject: grammaticalization

I had simply asked for the term for translation purposes. Thanks, incidentally, to all the contributors. Not only did I have a large selection from which to choose, I also picked up a few new reference works as well! Thanks again.

As long as we're on this, though, if we are going to pretend that Classical Arabic is the only language which hasn't undergone linguistic change diachronically (and the arguments against that, as David so eloquently wrote, are legion), that certainly isn't the case for spoken Arabics. The use of raaH as a future auxiliary, or "3am" as an present progressive marker are, among many others, plenty of evidence of grammaticization. 

-Dan.

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