The perfect aspects of many languages are grammaticalized from possession verbs, which is motivated by human cognition.
很多语言的完成体标记都是来自于领有动词,这背后存在着深刻的认知理据。
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Some latter verbs and some former verbs in the Japanese compound verbs are grammaticalized in the course of word formation, and lose their original meanings.
The third-person intensive reflexives (IRs) in English and Chinese are normally taken to be 'pronominal reflexives' unlike 'real, grammaticalized' reflexives.