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Aspects of grammaticalization and reanalysis in the voice domain in the transition from Latin to early Italo-Romance
This article discusses some aspects of the grammaticalization and reanalysis
of lexical verbs as passive auxiliaries and light verbs in the passage from Latin
to (Italo-)Romance, focussing on (i) the diachronic relationship between auxiliarization
and light verbs, (ii) the direction of the changes and (iii) the often
quoted pertinacity to change of light verbs. The light verb uses of the verbs
under investigation (COME, BECOME), both in Late Latin and in some early
Italo-Romance vernaculars, exhibit a different type of decategorialization and
desemanticization compared with auxiliaries, attested later than their auxiliary
function