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This paper contributes to the growing body of literature on nouns of measurement and the multifaceted processes that they are susceptible to undergo. It spotlights the Russian prepositional phrase po mere, lit. ‘by measure’, which originally held a compositional meaning referring to size measurement but has shifted towards a relator function as a temporal preposition marking simultaneity. The paper unravels the grammaticalization mechanisms behind this development by tracing across three centuries the constructional change, the entrenchment of the new temporal function and its eventual dominance over the older uses, based on the Russian National Corpus data.
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Language Sciences is a forum for debate, conducted so as to be of interest to the widest possible audience, on conceptual and theoretical issues in the various branches of general linguistics. The journal is also concerned with bringing to linguists attention current thinking about language within disciplines other than linguistics itself; relevant contributions from anthropologists, philosophers, psychologists and sociologists, among others, will be warmly received. In addition, the Editor is particularly keen to encourage the submission of essays on topics in the history and philosophy of language studies, and review articles discussing the import of significant recent works on language and linguistics.
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