TY - CHAP
T1 - Tracing processes in auxiliarization
T2 - Time-sufficiency verbs from a Norwegian-Swedish-English contrastive perspective
AU - Johansson, Mats
AU - Nordrum, Lene
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This chapter considers the Norwegian verb rekke ('reach') and its English correspondences in a bi-directional translation corpus (ENPC), as well as occurrences of rekke in Norwegian monolingual corpora. We suggest that rekke is undergoing grammaticalization from a concrete lexical spatial verb towards a (semi-)auxiliary that contains a component of time sufficiency, similar to Swedish hinna (Johansson & Nordrum 2016), but that rekke is at an earlier stage in this development. We base this suggestion on the following observations: (1) Swedish hinna was earlier polysemous between space and time, but can only denote time in present-day Swedish. (2) Norwegian rekke is still polysemous between space and time, but seems to always denote time when used as a (semi-)auxiliary. The study contributes to the semantic description of Norwegian rekke, but also has implications for grammaticalization studies as well as for studies of modality.
AB - This chapter considers the Norwegian verb rekke ('reach') and its English correspondences in a bi-directional translation corpus (ENPC), as well as occurrences of rekke in Norwegian monolingual corpora. We suggest that rekke is undergoing grammaticalization from a concrete lexical spatial verb towards a (semi-)auxiliary that contains a component of time sufficiency, similar to Swedish hinna (Johansson & Nordrum 2016), but that rekke is at an earlier stage in this development. We base this suggestion on the following observations: (1) Swedish hinna was earlier polysemous between space and time, but can only denote time in present-day Swedish. (2) Norwegian rekke is still polysemous between space and time, but seems to always denote time when used as a (semi-)auxiliary. The study contributes to the semantic description of Norwegian rekke, but also has implications for grammaticalization studies as well as for studies of modality.
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U2 - 10.1075/scl.101.04joh
DO - 10.1075/scl.101.04joh
M3 - Book chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85113722831
T3 - Studies in Corpus Linguistics
SP - 67
EP - 93
BT - Time in Languages, Languages in Time
A2 - Cermakova, Anna
A2 - Egan, Thomas
A2 - Hasselgard, Hilde
A2 - Rorvik, Sylvi
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
ER -