Organizing Grammar: Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van by Hans Broekhuis, Norbert Corver, Riny Huybregts, Ursula

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Traugott, Elizabeth 1 995. Subjectification in grammaticalization. In D. Stein and S. ) Subjectivity and subjectivization: Linguistic perspectives, 3 1-54 Cambridge: CUP Traugott, Elizabeth 1 997. Subjectification and the development of epistemic meaning: The case of promise and threaten. In T. Swan and O. ) . . Modality in Germanic languages: Historical and comparative perspectives. BerlinlNew York: Mouton de Gruyter. 1 2 Werner A braham Traugott, Elizabeth 2003. From Subjectification to intersubjectification, 124- 1 42.

Fox and Grodzinsky ( 1 998) provided arguments in favor of such an analysis . These include cases where get can separate idioms chunks, suggesting that the subject must receive its thematic role in its base position: (22) In the end, advantage always gets taken of John. The analysis above implies that get is generated in a vlV oice type of head. As such, it has a sem i-lexical nature, the result of which is the restrictions on its complement selection. Further research is necessary in order to detennine the details of this structure as well as the difference between passive and causative get and its counterparts in the other languages.

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