Des origines indo-européennes de shall

This paper presents the hypothesis that *(s)kel- ’to owe, be under an obligation’ continued in Old English by sculan and in Modern English by shall, is derived by a process of grammaticalisation and subsequent lexicalisation from homonymic PIE *(s)kel-’to cut’, via a putative specialized meaning of...

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Main Author: Dennis Philps
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2008-12-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/acs/12316
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