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Communication intitulée « From a passive marker to a lexical verb ‘to give’ – a case of degrammaticalization? », présentée par le professeur Wang Jian 王健 de la Shanghai Jiao Tong University 上海佳通大学, dans le cadre du séminaire du CRLAO sur la typologie linguistique de l’Asie orientale .Date : mercredi 25 janvier 2017, de 16h30 à 18hLieu : salle 200, (CREE – Centre de recherche d’Europe et d’Eurasie), 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris La présentation sera donnée en anglais.&#160;AbstractDegrammaticalization (e.g. the change from a grammatical word to a content item)  is a controversial issue. Some linguists believe that degrammaticalization does exist at all language levels, while others do not. According to He (2005), Gong (2010) and Chappell (2015), « 等 děng » can be used as a passive marker in some Sinitic languages. The original meaning of 等 is ‘to wait’ and the grammaticalization pathway is illustrated as below : verb ‘to wait’&#62; causative marker &#62; passive marker. My data show that 等 in the Shaodong Jianlongzhen dialect can not only be used as a causative marker and a passive marker but also as a verb which means ‘to give’. Is it an example of degrammaticalization ? The answer is in the negative. We find that in some other villages in Shaodong county another word 把 can be used as a passive marker, a causative marker and a lexical verb which similarly means ‘to give’. It will be argued that this is the result of grammatical replication.Pour toute information complémentaire, veuillez contacter Hilary Chappell sur hmchappell@gmail.com ou au CRLAO, 105 bd Raspail,  M. Hugues Feler au 01 53 10 53 71.