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Skip to main content Birth, Death and Resurrection of Connectives in today’s online Piedmontese Notice The full text article is available externally. View from original source. Author: Miola, Emanuele Source: Journal of Historical Linguistics, Volume 2, Number 2, 2012, pp. 208-238(31)Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.2.2.03mio < previous article | view table of contents | next article > This article deals with the diachronic development of three interclausal connectives attested in Piedmontese from 16th-century written texts to today’s wiki-Piedmontese, i.e. the variety of Piedmontese used on wikipedia. After discussing the case of the plain borrowing of però ‘but, still’ from Italian into Piedmontese, I focus on the grammaticalization path which gave rise to the counterexpectational meaning of tutun, today widespread in wiki-Piedmontese (but almost unattested in spoken Piedmontese). Second, the history of maraman is put under scrutiny: maraman develops from a plain adverbial ‘immediately’ to a hypothetical connective ‘if, in the unfortuate case that’, and eventually back to adverbial uses, but with the new meaning of ‘gradually’. Finally, I discuss the developments of tutun and maraman as cases of contact-induced grammaticalization (or aborted grammaticalization due to the contact languages) and show how non-lexical items such as connectives are used by Piedmontese ausbauizers. No Reference information available - sign in for access. No Citation information available - sign in for access. No Supplementary Data. No Article Media No Metrics Keywords: Ausbauization; Piedmontese; connectives; contact-induced grammaticalization Document Type: Research Article Publication date: January 1, 2012 Close Signup Dialog Sign-in Register Tools Reference exports +- EndNote BibTEX Linking options +- Ingenta Connect OpenURL Ingenta DOI DOI Receive new issue alert Latest TOC RSS Feed Recent Issues RSS Feed © Get Permissions Favourites Accessibility Share Content Access Key Free content Partial Free content New content Open access content Partial Open access content Subscribed content Partial Subscribed content Free trial content