Un cas de grammaticalisation ratée ? Étude diachronique de l’emploi du verbe stand en anglais
This article discusses the different uses of the verb stand in earlier stages of the English language, based on data from the Oxford English Dictionary. While Modern English does not use the posture verbs all that much compared to the other Germanic languages where these verbs have become basic loca...
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| description | This article discusses the different uses of the verb stand in earlier stages of the English language, based on data from the Oxford English Dictionary. While Modern English does not use the posture verbs all that much compared to the other Germanic languages where these verbs have become basic locative verbs, the older uses show that English stand (as well as the other posture verbs sit and lie) was used in a way quite similar to what is found in other Germanic languages today. In this paper, we present a cognitive lexical semantic analysis of these older uses and suggest three hypotheses that could possibly account for the disappearance (or rather, the non-grammaticalisation) of the English posture verbs. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-869f1104d5dc4cc18eb9eb4d93fcdcff2025-01-30T12:32:52ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiAnglophonia1278-33312427-04662014-10-011810.4000/anglophonia.327Un cas de grammaticalisation ratée ? Étude diachronique de l’emploi du verbe stand en anglaisMaarten LemmensThis article discusses the different uses of the verb stand in earlier stages of the English language, based on data from the Oxford English Dictionary. While Modern English does not use the posture verbs all that much compared to the other Germanic languages where these verbs have become basic locative verbs, the older uses show that English stand (as well as the other posture verbs sit and lie) was used in a way quite similar to what is found in other Germanic languages today. In this paper, we present a cognitive lexical semantic analysis of these older uses and suggest three hypotheses that could possibly account for the disappearance (or rather, the non-grammaticalisation) of the English posture verbs.https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/327metaphorposture verbsgrammaticalisationcognitive linguisticsdiachrony |
| spellingShingle | Maarten Lemmens Un cas de grammaticalisation ratée ? Étude diachronique de l’emploi du verbe stand en anglais Anglophonia metaphor posture verbs grammaticalisation cognitive linguistics diachrony |
| title | Un cas de grammaticalisation ratée ? Étude diachronique de l’emploi du verbe stand en anglais |
| title_full | Un cas de grammaticalisation ratée ? Étude diachronique de l’emploi du verbe stand en anglais |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Un cas de grammaticalisation ratée ? Étude diachronique de l’emploi du verbe stand en anglais |
| title_short | Un cas de grammaticalisation ratée ? Étude diachronique de l’emploi du verbe stand en anglais |
| title_sort | un cas de grammaticalisation ratee etude diachronique de l emploi du verbe stand en anglais |
| topic | metaphor posture verbs grammaticalisation cognitive linguistics diachrony |
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