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| Other authors / contributors: | Giacalone Ramat, Anna, 1937-
Hopper, Paul J.
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| ISBN: | 9789027275578
9027275572
1556196490
1556196504
902722935X
9027229368
9789027229359
9781556196492
9781556196508
9789027229366
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Chiefly papers presented at a symposium held during the 28th annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea which was held Aug. 1995, Leiden, Netherlands.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Summary: | The earliest use of the term "grammaticalization" was to refer to the process whereby lexical words of a language (such as English keep in "he keeps bees") become grammatical forms (such as the auxiliary in "he keeps looking at me"). Changes of this kind, which involve semantic fading and a downshift from a major to a minor category, have generally been agreed to come under the heading of grammaticalization. But other changes that equally contribute to new grammatical forms do not involve this kind of fading. In recent years, a debate has arisen over how to constrain the term theoretically. Is.
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| Other form: | Print version: Limits of grammaticalization. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1998
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