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    • Universiteit Antwerpen
    • Universiteit Gent
    • Université Catholique de Louvain
    • Royal Museum for Central Africa
    • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
    • Leibniz Universität Hannover
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Description:

The GRAMIS project sponsored by the Belgian Science Policy (Interuniversity Attraction Poles programme project P6/44) aims to contribute to current research efforts dealing with (the interaction between) the processes of grammaticalization (in the structural domain) and (inter)subjectification (in the semantic domain) in language change. It will focus on three major issues:

• The precise nature of the semantic changes in subjectification and in intersubjectification, and their relationship with the structural developments in grammaticalization.

• The teleology of the processes: are grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification unidirectional or not?

• The 'scope' of these processes: how do grammaticalization and (inter)subjectification relate to other mechanisms of language change, notably, to analogy?

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