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Originally Posted by CHOMAT  I'm convinced the the diachronic track should be followed : function changes (adverbs--> adj) entailing meaning changes . I'm afraid the synchronic analysis might be limited to the building of a mere corpus of pairs and respective places in the sentences.However, I guess the relevant idea of the place in the sentence might be clue .. functions and places are closely related |
I do agree Alain:
1. Diachronic track is the right one
2. The place of a word in a sentence
We only need to find out.