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Grammaticalized Lexemes as a Complementizers and Adpositions in Bangla
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Kumari Mamta
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Grammaticalization is defined as the development from lexical to grammatical forms and from grammatical to even more grammatical forms. Since the development of grammatical forms is not independent of the constructions to which they belong, the study of grammaticalization is also concerned with constructions and with even larger discourse segments.

In accordance with this definition, grammaticalization theory is concerned with the genesis and development of grammatical forms. Its primary goal is to describe how grammatical forms and constructions arise and develop through space and time, and to explain why they are structured the way they are. Technically, grammaticalization involves four main interrelated mechanisms: desemanticization, extension, decategorialization and erosion.

Five principles that underlie the emergence of grammatical forms given by Paul hopper are: layering, divergence, specialization, persistence, decategorialization. In this paper, I will investigate how complementizers, which connect subordinate clauses to the main sentence, develop from other parts of speech, and also how verb decategorises by the process of grammaticalization and act like adposition. I will explore these things in Bangla language which belongs to the Indo-Aryan family. And this occurs by the process of grammaticalization, in which a word loses lexicality and gains grammatical function instead and the grammatical will become more grammatical. My finding s are based on the six layer model of grammatical development by Heine and Kuteva (2007).

For e.g., 1) ɡʰoʈnɑ-r kɑron ekʰono ǰɑnɑ ǰɑɪ nɪ incident-GEN reason still know be NEG “The reason for the incident has not yet been known.“ Here “kɑron“ is a noun.

2) ɑmɪ oke čɪnɪ kɑron o ɑmɑ-r bond̪ʰu I.1P.SG he.3P.SG know COM he.REF I.1P.SG-GEN friend “I know him because he is my friend.“ Here same kɑron is acting as a complementizer.

With regard to the present example, the structural criterion yields the following outcome: Extension means that the use of reason was extended to a new context where it came to be used preceding complement clauses— with the result that a new function emerged, namely that of expressing a syntactic relation. Effects of decategorialization can be seen, for example, in the fact that whereas the noun that is sensitive to number (taking the plural form those), the complementizer lacks such morphosyntactic properties. Finally, erosion means that as a complementizer lacks a phonetic property that the noun has: It has lost the ability to receive stress. Conclusion, namely that kɑron (because) as a complementizer is the product of grammaticalization of the noun. My hypothesis says that in Bangla the grammaticalization process is very rich for complementizers and adpositions. I have seen that there are so many verbs which behaves as a complementizer and same verb can behave as adposition as well. It can also be seen that after grammaticalization one verb act as a more than one adposition.Not in terms of verb only but noun as well grammaticalizes and behave as a complementizer.

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