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SUMMARY:How grammar comes about (and how we discover it) - Jenneke van der
  Wal ( Linguistics)
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CONTACT:Dr Katherine Bowers
DESCRIPTION:How come we can say ‘I’m _going_ to sit here and have lunc
 h’ without actually moving somewhere? Why does ‘really’ have a diffe
 rent meaning in ‘She’s really hungry’ and ‘Really\, she’s hungry
 ’? These are instances of grammaticalisation or pragmaticalisation\, whe
 re a lexical item (a normal word) is reanalysed as carrying a grammatical 
 or pragmatic meaning\, such as future tense in the case of ‘going to’.
  Interestingly\, English is not the only language in which such grammatica
 lisation paths GO > future are taken\; think of French ‘Je vais cuisiner
 ’ or Dutch ‘Ik ga koken’ (I’m going to cook). \n\nThis talk will e
 xplain the universal similarities in how grammar comes about\, illustratin
 g with cases from African languages like Lingala (where cats and trees app
 ear to be human) and from the new book "‘COME and GO off the beaten gram
 maticalization path’":http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/211524\, co-
 edited by Jenneke van der Wal. 
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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