How to analyse the following joke? To some--marriage is a word...to others--a sentence. Comment: (i) To some marriage is a word... (ii) To some is a sentence. In the first clause marriage is object language, a mention , and is a word is metalanguage d ...
Reading Note: A. Heine (1985) The more a form is grammaticalized: 1. the more it loses in semantic complexities, functional significance, and/or expressive value 2. the more it loses in pragmatics and gains in syntactic significance ...