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Grammaticalization and Language Change : New Reflections.

This study focuses on "the many careers of negative polarity items", taking a diachronic perspective on NPIs in general and on scalar NPIs in particular. Its main thesis is that scalar NPIs are prototypical NPIs. The downward entailing contexts of NPIs can be explained and made cognitively...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davidse, Kristin
Otros Autores: Breban, Tine, Brems, Lieselotte, Mortelmans, Tanja
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012.
Colección:Studies in language companion series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo