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Grammaticization, synchronic variation, and language contact : a study of Spanish progressive -ndo constructions /

This study of Old Spanish and present-day Mexico and New Mexico data develops a grammaticization account of variation in progressive constructions. Diachronic changes in cooccurrence patterns show that grammaticization involves reductive change driven by frequency increases. Formal reduction results...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Torres Cacoullos, Rena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2000.
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 52.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo