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Cognate objects of weather verbs in African languages of South Africa –from synchronic variation to a grammaticalization path

The authors argue that the synchronic variation of cognate objects of weather verbs exhibited in six African languages of South Africa (Sepedi, Sesotho, Tshivenda, isiXhosa, Xitsonga, and isiZulu) has a diachronic explanation, and may be represented as a grammaticalization path. This path gradually...

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Main Authors: Andrason, Alexander, Visser, Marianna W.
Format: Artigo
Language:Africânder
Published: Stellenbosch University 2017-12-01
Series:Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:https://spil.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/287
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