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Jess,
At 02:03 PM 2/19/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Grammaticalization is considered by linguists to be a form of
>syntacticization of lexical items. Indeed, after abstracting away word order
>and movement, they RUN the grammar, in ways that belie the actual meanings of
>the ancestral lexical items, often retained to some extent as the terms shift
>usage.
Have you looked into creoles? Do they have more ideophones?
Mark
http://www.htcomp.net/markmills
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