Grammaticalization by Paul J. Hopper, Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Grammaticalization

Paul J. Hopper, Elizabeth Closs Traugott

278 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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Ordinary lexical items and constructions come in certain linguistic contexts to serve grammatical functions, and, once grammaticalized, continue to develop new grammatical functions. Thus nouns and verbs may change over time into grammatical eleme...

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