The article discusses some cognitive processes of grammaticalization in relation to quasicoordinated constructions with deictic verbs go and come. Verbs of motion often get grammaticalized across languages, semantic bleaching being a prerequisite of this process. Their lexical meaning bleached, go and come acquire attitudinal modality stance.

Translated title of the contributionREVISITING COGNITIVE BASIS OF QUASICOORDINATED VERBAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN ENGLISH
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)498-501
JournalКогнитивные исследования языка
Issue number33
StatePublished - Jun 2018

    Research areas

  • GRAMMATICALIZATION, COGNITIVE PROCESSES, QUASI-COORDINATED CONSTRUCTIONS, DEICTIC VERBS

    Scopus subject areas

  • Arts and Humanities(all)

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