Grammaticalization and Language Change : New Reflections.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davidse, Kristin
Other Authors: Breban, Tine, Brems, Lieselotte, Mortelmans, Tanja
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012.
Series:Studies in language companion series.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammaticalization.
Linguistic change.
Grammaticalisation.
Changement linguistique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Grammaticalization
Linguistic change
Online Access:Texto completo

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