Abstract
This study aims to address the developmental paths of ‘asverb’-topic restrictors (TRs) from the perspective of grammaticalization. The ‘as-verb’-TRs includes ‘as-verb-ing’-forms (as touching and as concerning) and ‘as-verb-s’-forms(as concerns, as regards, as relates to and as respects). ‘As far as-verb’-TRs will be also dealt with on the evolutional cline. Mechanisms of grammaticalization influenced by the human cognition will clarify the motivation of the historical changes and contemporary phenomena on the ‘as-verb’-TRs with the assistance of diachronic and synchronic corpora analysis.
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