[Lingtyp] Numeral 'one' and 'as soon as'

[Bernhard Wälchli]

Dear Martin,
I would recommend you to have a look at this very nice paper in Language:
Eberhardt, Ina. 2017. From a focus particle to a conjunction: Diachronic and synchronic analysis of German zumal. Language, 93(2), pp.e66-e96.
(Alas, only 3 citations on Google scholars so far)

Best wishes,

Bernhard


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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] Numeral 'one' and 'as soon as'

And it is only in this exchange that I realize that German Mal 'time (in the sense of the French fois)' can be used in a somewhat similar way, in the combination zumal (= zu Mal):

Ich werde gehen, zumal du so früh gekommen bist.
'I'll be leaving, as you came so early.'

Maybe German also borrowed this from French in one way or another. (But note that zumal only means '(in as much) as', i.e. it only has a causal sense.)

(There are so many similarities among European languages that seem to be due to borrowing in one way or another...)

Best,
Martin

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