LINGUIST List 14.34

Tue Jan 7 2003

Qs: "leave", Grammaticalization of Adverbs

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  1. baskaran, Qs: Contrasting senses for 'leave'
  2. Maria Rubinstein, Grammaticalization of adverbs?

Message 1: Qs: Contrasting senses for 'leave'

 Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:18:28 +0530 (IST)
From: baskaran <baskaranau-kbc.org>
Subject: Qs: Contrasting senses for 'leave'


Hi,

 Recently I came across a conversation given below.
 Person-1: John left his company last month.
 Person-2: Then what is left there?
 It is interesting to see the meaning of 'left' in these sentences. In 
the first one, it means, 'go away' or 'move permanantly out' and in the 
second one, it means, 'remaining there'. These two senses are squarely 
opposite to each other.
 (The 10th edition of the Consice Oxford dictionary lists the following 
two (contrasting) senses among others for the word 'leave',
1. go away from, depart permanantly
2. allow or cause to remain)
 I would like to know whether this phenomenon has been studied earlier 
for any language. I would also welcome more examples in English or other 
languages.
 I will post the summary of the responses. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Baskaran
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Message 2: Grammaticalization of adverbs?

 Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 03:08:24 +0000
From: Maria Rubinstein <masharubinstein.mccme.ru>
Subject: Grammaticalization of adverbs?



Dear colleagues, 

I'd be very grateful to anybody who could give me any info. The
subject of interest is how spacial adverbs grammaticalize into
expletives (eng. THERE), discoursive markers (russian TAM `there' also
marks less importance), etc. Any (typological) books/papers/articles?
Any dissertations? 

Yours, Maria Rubinstein, Russian State University
for the Humanities
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