I'm Finna Prove Something: A Study on the Grammaticalization of 'Fixing to'

Research Mentor(s)

Xing, Janet Zhiqun

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Description

This research paper investigates the grammaticalization of the word ‘finna’ in order to show that it is a more highly grammaticalized form of ‘fixing to’, outside its phonological reduction. It also compares mechanisms of the grammaticalization process to those of ‘going to’ in order to show their similarity, so that the difference in their perceptions by the public may be further examined.

Document Type

Event

Start Date

14-5-2018 4:00 PM

End Date

14-5-2018 6:00 PM

Department

Linguistics

Resource Type

Moving image

Genre/Form

student projects; streaming video

Subjects – Topical (LCSH)

English language--Grammaticalization; English language--Syntax

Type

MovingImage

Keywords

Fixing to, Finna, Semantic bleaching, Phonemic reduction, Morpho-syntactic change

Comments

Linguistics Program, Linguistics 421

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English

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I'm Finna Prove Something: A Study on the Grammaticalization of 'Fixing to'

This research paper investigates the grammaticalization of the word ‘finna’ in order to show that it is a more highly grammaticalized form of ‘fixing to’, outside its phonological reduction. It also compares mechanisms of the grammaticalization process to those of ‘going to’ in order to show their similarity, so that the difference in their perceptions by the public may be further examined.